Report Ranks Best and Worst Agencies for Federal Employees (by Joe Davidson)
Just in time for the holidays comes the “Best Places to Work in the Federal Government” report, filled with good tidings and bad news for federal agencies.
The annual report is awaited each year by top officials who want to look good and avoid embarrassment. That makes sense, because the ratings are a reflection on their leadership. But more than simply showing who is up and who is down, the Best Places report slices and dices data to show why employees are engaged in their work or not. Engagement pays off in productivity and service to the public. Used properly, the report is a workforce road map, providing signs on how to improve employee morale.
Best Places is published by the Partnership for Public Service and the Deloitte consulting firm, using data from the Office of Personnel Management’s Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS). Among the key findings:
- The government-wide employee engagement index score rose by 1.3 points to 59.4 this year. The Obama administration can feel proud of this second-consecutive-year increase, but this is still well behind the high of 65 in 2010…
Source: Washington Post
