In many Asian service institutions, jobs are narrowly task-oriented, which often results in employee dissatisfaction when individuals are unable to impact their work flow.
Putting all federal employees on the exchanges would obliterate the most market-oriented insurance program run by the government, the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, or FEHBP.
They are an anachronism from a time when all that was measured was "employee time in the office" rather than the more useful results-oriented measures of today.