generally most of the reason for staying in a GS rated position is the benefits, including the pension which is calculated based on years of service.

it isn’t like tech douche start up world where it’s all salary and stove-piped stock options and a maniacal boss who can terminate medical insurance at a whim.

there simply aren’t enough political appointees to oversee and pressure people to leave without an actual pension buyout including healthcare, which would balloon the shit out of costs, which would over what these agencies have in their budgets. which would require added funding from congress… good luck selling that as efficiency.

there’s a reason they are saying “paid through September” because that’s all the funding they have to work with, since that’s the end of the federal fiscal calendar.

honestly, I bet they don’t even get 5% of the workforce to take the bait, even making it so easy to resign with Musk’s auto-resign-by-email app, which probably fails some HR paperwork requirement of a legit digital signature.