Book excerpt: Describes Internal Revenue Service (IRS) initial efforts to redeploy employees under the terms of the Redeployment Understanding & provides information on the results of those efforts. Thousands of employees could have their jobs eliminated or redesigned as IRS continues modernizing its operations. Reviews IRS' initial use of redeployment procedures to determine whether there were lessons to be learned from (1) IRS' initial use of these procedures & their impact on IRS' operations, & (2) the reaction of redeployed employees & their supervisors to redeployment & the redeployment process. Charts & tables.