Obama’s federal workplace legacy is mixed, but he’ll be missed

The Washington Post: President Obama entered office eight years ago optimistic that he could “make government cool again.”

Now he’s preparing to leave the White House to Donald Trump and his cynical “drain-the-swamp” approach to governing.

As his administration develops, we’ll continue to examine Trump’s plan to freeze federal hiring and efforts by Republicans to cut employee benefits while disemboweling civil service protections.

But with one week to go in Obama’s presidency, we take a look at his federal workforce legacy through the words of employees and retirees who lived it and experts who studied it.

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