Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk's cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work. "Ultimately, the outcome was the agency was left broken and understaffed," said Chad Becker, a former GSA real estate official. The Labor Department has also brought back some employees who took buyouts, while the National Park Service earlier reinstated a number of dismissed employees. Starting in March, thousands of GSA employees left the agency as part of programs that encouraged them to resign or take early retirement. Hundreds of others — those subject to the recall notice — were dismissed as part of a push to reduce the size of the federal workforce.