future employment
if a public employee intends to seek employment in the future with a firm he or she now transacts official business with, the tendency may be to give favored treatment to this prospective employer in hopes of encouraging a job offer. Also, the government employee may present his inside contacts and knowledge of agency procedure as an attractive package for a firm that does regular business with that public organization. The widespread "in-and-out" or "revolving door" syndrome, particularly problematic in the defense industries, creates some of the most serious conflicts (Beard, 1978).AS people mave back and forth between public and private-sector service, interwined interests resultint from past work and future employment expectations can become extremely complex.