Brock Wilson
43:14 - 43:55
"by and large, the set of people that have left have come from the Department of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, the Department of Transportation. Those are the set of agencies that are seeing workers leave. When we look at the type of jobs for those people, they are in biological sciences, they're in maintenance, they're in physical sciences. So these are jobs that are not in administrative roles but are generally more in field jobs."
“by and large, the set of people that have left have come from the Department of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, the Department of Transportation. Those are the set of agencies that are seeing workers leave. When we look at the type of jobs for those people, they are in biological sciences, they're in maintenance, they're in physical sciences. So these are jobs that are not in administrative roles but are generally more in field jobs.”
- Speaker
- Brock Wilson
- Timestamp
- 43:14 – 43:55
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- June 26, 2026
From the transcript
So given that movement, what I want to characterize next is where, where are we seeing this change in the federal workforce. And so by and large, the set of people that have left have come from the Department of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, the Department of Transportation. Those are the set of agencies that are seeing workers leave. When we look at the type of jobs for those people, they are in biological sciences, they're in maintenance, they're in physical sciences. So these are jobs that are not in administrative roles but are generally more in field jobs.
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