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Ballenstedt's work confronts an issue of growing prominence in 21st century America: employment. Her writing does more than address the issues of employment in of itself, but includes discussion of retirement or the end of employment, and yet another issue of returning to work after retirement. This article is a specific meditation on the situation of federal retirees returning to work after retirement and what kinds of economic and social consequences the government and the country would face if such action were taken on a massive scale.
According to Ballenstedt, the Office of Personnel Management is pushing policies that would increase incentives for federal retirees to return to the workforce. Ultimately, other experts have considered this situation and believe that additional monetary incentives to retired federal employees wishing to return to the workforce would cost the government a lot of money and may end up hurting the government, the federal branch specifically, rather than acting as a solution to an impending wave of mass retirement in the United States.
Other agencies, such as federal labor unions like the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) are extremely concerned about the potential...
The consequences of this issue have effects at the highest levels of government as well as across many areas within the federal branch.
This article brings to light a confusing and disturbing trend as a result of the current status of the United States economy and infrastructure. There is a great deal of Americans who have retired or are retirement aged, and are returning to work or simply continuing working. Across many industries such as retail, food, and civil service, there are increasing numbers of older employees. If these people want to work and are able to, they should be allowed to persist. Many of these older workers continue to work or return to work because of economic hardship and desperation to survive.
Ballenstedt, B. (2008) Bring 'Em Back. Government Executive, 40(8), 16 -- 17.
Hanbury et al. research and explain the importance of a manager to fit within his/her work environment as well as offer elaboration on the factors that contribute to a manager fitting in with an organization, a management position, and with the other employees. The authors contend that they chose…
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