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Your Function is Being Eliminated

How the dissolution of the Service Design-Enterprise Digital Experience team blasted a hole in effective & efficient technology work—but did nothing to end the culture the team built.

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Four federal employees discuss the January-March 2025 reduction in force efforts at GSA that eliminated entire teams, including the Office of Customer Experience’s Service Design - Enterprise Digital Experience unit. The conversation reveals how the elimination of specialized teams doing digital modernization and customer experience work represents not just job losses but the wholesale destruction of institutional knowledge, proven methodologies, and the government’s capacity to tackle complex problems.

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