A year following Elon Musk’s purported Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) virtually dismissing thousands of public servants, one national department, impacted by those reductions, is now preparing to recruit scores of individuals.
According to a communication acquired by WIRED, the General Services Administration (GSA), which manages the government’s information technology division and property assets, is seeking to fill “around 400 roles” within its Public Building Service (PBS) unit.
“We’re delighted to declare that the GSA Tactical Recruitment Panel has sanctioned the PBS personnel strategy, formulated to meet our personnel requirements and reinforce our groups,” proclaims a message dispatched by PBS chief of staff Donna Dix to employees on Monday.
The email additionally states that the recruitment drive will concentrate on “the most critical sectors requiring attention: facilities management, acquisition, and project management.”
GSA offered no reply to an inquiry for comment.
In March 2025, PBS, which oversees the governmental structures within GSA’s jurisdiction, shed hundreds of personnel subsequent to DOGE reductions. WIRED reported at the time that the department was also directed to divest more than 500 government buildings, some of which accommodated governmental bodies and the offices of US senators. A critical compound housing a CIA facility in Northern Virginia was among the properties on that list. Since then, the department has retracted the scope of these plans, choosing instead to commit more strongly to supporting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) broaden throughout the nation. In February, WIRED revealed that GSA and PBS were aiding ICE’s initiatives to rent premises nationwide as part of an extensive development drive.
It marks not the inaugural occasion that PBS has unveiled intentions to re-employ or substitute federal employees terminated by DOGE. In September, hundreds of PBS employees were offered the chance to resume employment months after they agreed to a postponed departure proposal, in essence rendering their six-month hiatus a prolonged leave.
Stephen Ehikian, the previous interim chief of the GSA, departed the department in September 2025, following widespread dismissals. By last May, 2,100 employees had opted for delayed departures, and an additional 1,000 were made redundant. “The chance we had was to reorganize [GSA], streamline it, and now the team’s in an excellent standing to reconstruct it the way they desire,” he informed Nextgov at the time. Ehikian’s wife earlier served at Elon Musk’s digital communications company X.
Upon exiting federal employment, Ehikian transitioned to the commercial realm, leading the corporate artificial intelligence company C3 AI. In the initial months of this year, the company declared substantial reductions to its personnel. Its stock fell sharply by 17 percent after the news broke.
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