These tend to work through in stages: fastest ones to accept were already looking, and next up are those that are on the fence, and so on...

The 8-month buyout offer is significantly better than the one-time offer from Clinton in the 90's [1], even adjusting for inflation, so I'd expect that there's a large group of individuals & families that are just taking the time to evaluate the decision.

[https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-the-buyo...]

Since the turover rate per year is 6%, implemented hiring freeze would yield theese results.

They have separately promised $1T or even $2T in cuts and and laying off 200K won't even come close. Not to mention they are offering these as blanket buyouts seemingly without regard for job function so they will inevitably end up needing to hire back some percentage of roles unless (as I suspect) they intend to just stop doing a bunch of critical work.

it's now 40k, so 2%. https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2025/02/05/trumps-fede...