TSA Tackles Turnover

The Transportation Security Administration is still trying to figure out why so many of its employees leave its workforce every year -- about 20 percent, USA Today reports, compared to a governmentwide average of about 8 percent.

One possible reason, according to TSA Deputy Administrator Gale Rossides: The job involves hard work. "It is frequently not the job they expected," she says of recruits. For many people the job's requirements, from lifting luggage to spending hours studying X-ray images of bags is "more physically demanding than they expected," Rossides says. But Rossides doesn't seem too concerned. TSA's attrition rate, she says, is in line with other private-sector transportation jobs.