“However, even w/the use of any automated system, the OPM guidance says all data has to be confirmed manually & that employees (or their representative) are allowed to examine the registers.” It’s not immediately clear if #AutoRIF’s capabilities have been altered either by the #Defense Dept or #DOGE.

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Biasini has also been listed as the main point of contact for the government-wide email system created by the #Trump admin from within #OPM to solicit resignation emails from #FederalWorkers.

…In order to conduct RIFs, govt HR ofcls are required to create lists ranking employees who may be subject to #firings. #AutoRIF does that automatically, a fmr govt HR ofcl tells WIRED.

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Probationary employees—those who were recently hired, promoted, or otherwise changed roles—have been targeted first, as they lack certain #CivilService #protections that would make them harder to fire. Thousands of workers have been terminated over the last few weeks across multiple agencies. With new software & the use of #AI, some government employees fear that large-scale terminations could roll out even more quickly.

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There is a repository in the Office of Personnel Management’s (#OPM) enterprise GitHub system titled “#autorif” in a space created specifically for the director’s office—where #Musk associates have taken charge—soon after #Trump took office. Changes were made as recently as this wknd.

So far, federal agency #firings have been conducted manually, w/HR ofcls combing through employee registries & lists provided by managers, sources tell WIRED.

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The software, called #AutoRIF, which stands for Automated Reduction in Force, was first developed by the Dept of #Defense more than 2 decades ago. Since then, it’s been updated several times & used by a variety of agencies to expedite reductions in workforce. Screenshots of internal databases reviewed by WIRED show that #DOGE operatives have accessed AutoRIF & appear to be editing its #code.

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• Rehired a 25-year-old engineer with a stack of #racist tweets to his name.

• Spouted a bunch of nonsense #ConspiracyTheories about who’s getting #SocialSecurity benefits. (Okay, that one was all #Musk.)

[& that was all before Feb 20, 2025]

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Within just the last week or so, #ElonMusk’s #DOGE hit team of mostly young, almost exclusively male engineers & executives have done the following:

• Pushed a website live to track “savings” that showed no savings for several days, & made it trivially easy for random people on the internet to make changes to it.

• Published classified info on that same site.

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