Public service employment has grown by 31 per cent

[Navy_Pete]

Yep.

I can’t see how RTO4 and RTO5 will make enough people quit by July. ERI won’t clear enough people and neither will WFA. At least not by the timelines that have been hinted at.

My experience with the last round of DRAP was it was the 'go to' people that were burnt out and tired that took it, not the deadweight. Don't expect any different here, as they are the ones that need a break, and if they still want to work likely can find a job (and generally seemed more financially responsible and prepped for retirement anyways). Hard to train new people as well when you shed your experienced people, without having an overlap period allowing for knowledge transfer, and we lost centuries of experience in critical sections.

They also want to increase the speed of DND procurement, but are cutting PSPC numbers, when PSPC is already a limiting factor with not enough contracting officers to support DND, so some of it doesn't make sense (unless they transfer to the new procurement arm and just do DND buys).

The people in my neck of the woods that are interested in it this time are cornerstones, and the ones that we hoped might take it are going to ride it out, and when you get high performers parachute when low performers cling on you just burn out the survivors faster, so bit of a double whammy. All this when we are basically trying to triple the size of our section, so keeping the experienced people around is a critical part to create a sustainable field of SMEs in a super particular niche where we were planning on a 3-5 year trajectory to train up journeymen and experience people to the weird requirements of the CAF.