Hiring Hiatus

The arrival of automated hiring and personnel transaction processing software at federal agencies has coincided with a decline in the number of human resources employees.

Year Employees
1994 49,727
1996 44,128
1998 41,024
2000 40,894
2002 41,465
2004 40,184

Source: Office of Personnel Management

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