Ottawa’s Generation Gap

• The Government cut 50,000 jobs in the mid 1990’s & all but closed its doors to new hires

• Avg. age of Federal employees rose to 47years old from 39 in 1991; by 2000 the proportion of public servants age 35years or Younger was ½ the Canadian Avg.

• 40% of employees will be eligible to retire by 2010

• Senior managers/4500 people in executive ranks comprise the greyest of them all

• The Average age of Deputy ministers is 53

• The average retirement age is 58, as there are few 40-somethings ready to replace them, a leadership crisis looms

 National Post Oct/2006