The first of 11 days without pay comes this week for 650,000 civilian employees within the Defense Department. The days will be spread out through September.
About 85 percent of the department’s almost 900,000 civilians around the globe will be furloughed once a week over the next three months.
Seeing that Friday is not exactly the most productive work day for many employees naturally and the difficulty of downsizing employees to match the force reduction, this may be the smartest option to curtail the the defense budget and ease budget pressures.
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