From Sharyl's Substack:
Are the 2025 Layoffs the First of Their Kind?
The 2025 State Department layoffs are not the first mass layoffs in the department’s modern history.
In 1987, 1,270 State Department positions were eliminated. It was explicitly described at the time as the “largest round of job cuts in the department’s modern history.”
The 2025 layoffs, with 1,353 firings, are larger in absolute numbers, but smaller in terms of workforce percentage.
Since the 1987 layoffs, the State Department roster had expanded by an additional 12,000+ employees.
1,270 firings in 1987: 8% of the State Department direct-hire staff of 15,800.
1,353 firings in 2025: 5% of the State Department's total direct-hire staff of 27,230 (14,399 Foreign Service employees and 12,831 Civil Service).
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