Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“In recent years, the quit rate for federal workers has been about one-quarter the rate for workers in general. Deliberate buyouts aside — the quit rate for federal workers will remain rock bottom. What makes me so confident that federal quit rates will remain low despite working conditions that most of them must find repugnant? To understand my answer, you have to ask another question: Why were federal workers quit rates so low in the first place?” (03/04/25)