RIF Watch For FY 2025
Layoffs.
NASAWatch
Keith’s note: Sources report that the internal NASA Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process has included discussion of a possible RIF in FY 2025. The budget is that bad folks. Stay tuned. Maybe Senator Administrator Bill Nelson can enlighten everyone as to how bad the NASA budget situation really is. NASA is not going to be doing a robust Artemis program or MSR or many of other big new things it wants to do in a budget environment with RIFs. RIFs can be brutal, pit one employee against another, decimate morale, and prompt people to find a more secure job.
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Stands to reason. JPL already had one this year, and other centers have shed contractors left and right. Not good news for NASA.
I’ve been through more of these RIF Watches than I care count. Program schedules will get shifted to the right; some of the actual best and brightest of the Agency will move on to greener and less tenuous pastures; the less capable employees will remain behind and fret about their potential RIF-risk rather than coming up with creative ways to save money and improve ops. In other words. . . it’s status quo.
Implement mandatory return-to-office policy. No RIF needed!