06-11-2018, 06:20 PM
Could the county offer the type of early retirement packages corporate America has been doing for years? Offer employees a combination of additional years of service and/or age to qualify them for for pensions, and then eliminate the newly vacant position? There would need to be some sort of factor that would limit the number of employees eligible, however. At my former employer, 30% of management retired on the same day due to an overly generous offer - but then, after a month or two of dust settling, equilibrium was reestablished and the CEO noted "For every person who left that we didn't want to leave, there were 5 who left who we did want to leave." It should also be noted that one year after "Black Friday,"(as the mass retirement day was called), the HR Director who though he had devised the appropriate incentive package for the early retirement offer left "to pursue other interests" (the primary "other interest" in the minds of many being removing the boot from his behind...).