A Year After DOGE Cuts, GSA Now Plans to Hire Hundreds of Employees

A twelvemonth after Elon Musk’s alleged Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) efficaciously fired thousands of authorities employees, 1 national bureau that was affected by those cuts is present preparing to prosecute hundreds of people.

The General Services Administration (GSA), an bureau that oversees the government’s IT section and existent property holdings, is hiring “approximately 400 positions” crossed its Public Building Service (PBS) division, according to an email obtained by WIRED.

“We’re thrilled to denote that the GSA Strategic Hiring Committee has approved the PBS staffing program designed to code our workforce needs and fortify our teams,” states an email sent by PBS main of unit Donna Dix to employees connected Monday.

The email goes connected to accidental that the hiring effort volition absorption connected “the astir important areas of need: facilities management, acquisition, and task management.”

GSA did not respond to a petition for comment.

PBS, which manages the national buildings nether GSA’s banner, mislaid hundreds of employees successful March 2025 pursuing DOGE cuts. The agency, WIRED reported astatine the time, was besides instructed to merchantability disconnected much than 500 authorities buildings, immoderate of which housed authorities agencies and the offices of US senators. One of the properties connected the database was a delicate analyzable lodging a CIA installation successful Northern Virginia. Since then, the bureau has walked backmost the grade of these plans, and alternatively doubled down connected assisting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) grow crossed the US. WIRED reported successful February that GSA and PBS were assisting ICE’s plans to lease offices passim the US arsenic portion of a monolithic enlargement campaign.

This isn’t the archetypal clip that PBS has announced plans to rehire oregon regenerate national employees chopped by DOGE. In September, hundreds of PBS employees were fixed the accidental to instrumentality to enactment months aft they accepted a deferred resignation offer, efficaciously making their half-year separation an extended vacation.

Stephen Ehikian, the erstwhile acting caput of the GSA, near the bureau successful September 2025 aft conducting extended layoffs. As of past May, 2,100 workers took deferred resignation and 1,000 much were laid off. “The accidental we had was to restructure [GSA], slim it down, and present the team's successful a phenomenal presumption to physique it backmost the mode they want,” helium told Nextgov astatine the time. Ehikian’s woman antecedently worked for Elon Musk’s societal media steadfast X.

Since leaving the government, Ehikian has moved into the backstage sector, moving the endeavor AI steadfast C3 AI. Earlier this year, the institution announced important cuts to its workforce. Its banal plunged 17 percent pursuing the announcement.