EXCLUSIVE — Scott Kupor wants to streamline the workforce at his agency, but that doesn't mean he's handing out large numbers of pink slips.

Kupor, who was sworn in as director of the Office of Personnel Management on July 14, aims to reduce his workforce from nearly 3,000 to 2,000, mostly through voluntary efforts.

"We can't be all things to all people," Kupor said in an interview with the Washington Examiner, citing programs he has cut that no longer fit with OPM's mission, among them an executive education initiative. Most of the employees who are leaving have taken a deferred resignation or otherwise left on their own, Kupor added, with fewer than 200 cut through a direct reduction in force.

His approach stands in contrast to the specter of mass layoffs the Department of Gover

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