By Natalie Alms
The Office of Personnel Management released governmentwide results from its annual employee survey on Monday, opening a window into views on their engagement and satisfaction at work, as well as insight on the shift to telework during the pandemic.
The Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey was postponed twice last year because of the pandemic before rolling out in September. Its content also changed, with new sections on the pandemic added and the usual recurring sections streamlined. Overall, 624,800 feds from 82 agencies participated.
Overall, feds rated their experiences highly. The governmentwide global satisfaction went up four points to 69%. The overall employee engagement index, an average of three sections focused on employees relationship with their supervisors, perception of agency leadership and work experience, went up to 72%, as compared to 68% in 2019.
Teleworking feds were far happier with their jobs in 2020 2 hours ago The 2020 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey showed that feds working away from the office were more engaged than those unable to telework. (Tero Vesalainen/Getty Images) Federal employees who moved to either full- or part-time telework during the COVID-19 pandemic reported higher engagement and satisfaction with their jobs than those who could not work remotely, according to results of the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey released April 26. The overall employee engagement score for feds who worked three or more days of telework a week was 76 percent compared with only 62.5 percent engagement for those employees who could not telework.
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Feds are happier with their jobs in the midst of a pandemic 1 day ago Federal employees are working from home more often and are more satisfied with their jobs, according to 2020 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey results. (PeopleImages/GettyImages) Even during the worst global pandemic of the century, increased demands on public jobs and a radical shift to predominantly remote work, federal employees are confident in their agencies’ ability to keep them safe and recognize their hard work, according to results of the 2020 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. Those survey numbers, which were distributed by the IRS to employees April 5 but cover governmentwide results as a point of comparison, show a workforce that was predominantly still working from home during the September to October 2020 response time and even more satisfied in their work than they were in 2019.
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In a report released on March 29, 2021, the Governmental
Accountability Office ( GAO ) announced that between
fiscal years 2010 and 2019, the National Labor Relations Board
( NLRB ) experienced a 26% decrease in total staff. The
most significant reductions taking place in Regional offices which
saw a 33% reduction compared to only an 8% reduction at the
Board s headquarters.
A Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey revealed that NLRB employees
were increasingly dissatisfied with the sufficiency of resources
and the overall organization in recent years. The report mentioned
that staff have expressed concern about workloads and warned the