Report Shows Changing Workforce

The Office of Personnel Management has released a new profile of federal employment, showing that over the two years ending with fiscal 2004, the shift of the federal government from blue-collar to white-collar work continued, with the former category losing 6,300 jobs and the latter gaining 44,600. The workforce is now 88.9 percent white-collar. By agency, the biggest gainers in the period were the Veterans Affairs and State departments and the Army, while the three biggest losers were three departments that lost components due to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security—Transportation, Treasury and Justice.