Knife Taken to Government Agency That Helped Handle Pandemic

Ambulance attendants wearing full protective clothing prepare a gurney to transport residents to hospital at the Wyoming Nursing Home on August 2, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. The Wyoming Nursing Home in Sydney's inner west, run by Hardi Aged Care, has reported 18 Covid-19 cases in residents and a further two in staff, sending the remainder of the home's top floor residents to hospital as a precaution. Covid-19 lockdown restrictions in hot spot local government areas have increased with masks required outdoors at all times and residents limited to movement within a 5 kilometre radius of their homes. Greater Sydney is in lockdown through August 28th to contain the highly contagious Covid-19 delta variant. Photo by Sean Foster/Getty Images

Service NSW (New South Wales) will cut about 125 positions as part of a downsizing process following the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The agency, which provides access to government services such as license applications, birth registrations and payment of fines, nearly doubled its staff during the pandemic—going from 2860 employees to 4950.