""If they could get enough money elsewhere, if they could get remote jobs, if they could get as much vacation, they would just leave," a former FDA staffer told Axios, speaking of current staffers."
""I don't know that I've talked to anyone who's happy there.""
""Good people leave and the other problem is, because of all of this perceived chaos, it becomes even harder for the FDA to recruit new employees," said Peter Pitts, a former associate FDA commissioner and president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest. "And it's never been easy.""
Widespread staff dissatisfaction and departures at the FDA are accelerating as experienced career officials exit and remaining employees consider leaving for better pay, remote work, or benefits. The agency's top drug regulator resigned amid a lawsuit alleging misuse of position, while he denied allegations and said he faced retaliation for raising concerns about a program to speed certain drug approvals. Recruitment is suffering because perceived chaos deters applicants, and the biologics and vaccines division has been described as rife with mistrust and paranoia under recent leadership. The instability undermines the FDA's predictability relied upon by pharmaceutical and biotech investors.
Read at Axios
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