IRS Plans to Cut Thousands of Workers by Mail
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) headquarters in Washington, DC.
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Thousands of IRS employees around the country reported to work Thursday prepared for an email announcement that they were being placed on leave.
For many, the email never arrived. Not because they weren’t being terminated — they were — but because of a technical glitch that prevented officials from notifying them via email, according to an agency employee and messages reviewed by Bloomberg News.