Excerpted from CRN Gov .com (see link below)

Establish A Niche, And Work Will Follow

Throughout government agencies, IT departments are e-mailing and calling retired civil servants and military veterans in a plea to return to work. There are ever-widening staffing shortages, thanks to an initial wave of baby boomers retiring from the federal, state and local workforce. California, in fact, has created a database dubbed "Boomerang" to hire back retired state employees. The life of an agency worker -- an existence once perceived as the very definition of rigidity -- is now seeing a warmer reception for concepts like flex hours and telecommuting, perks that government employers are now embracing in an attempt to keep and recruit talent.

http://www.crn.com/government/207600927