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email Federal Housing Finance Agency Improves Its Employee Satisfaction Scores
It’s “important for all federal employees to be regularly reminded about the bigger impact they have,” said Director Mark Calabria.
Mark Calabria is coming up on his two-year anniversary as Federal Housing Finance Agency director, which coincides with improved and overwhelmingly positive scores on the Federal Employee Viewpoint survey for fiscal 2020.
President Trump nominated Calabria to lead the independent, regulatory agency, which has about 780 employees, after Mel Watt finished his five-year term. Calabria assumed office on April 9, 2019, making fiscal 2020 the first full fiscal year under his leadership. After being delayed twice due to the coronavirus pandemic, the annual survey was administered. The agency shared the 2020 results exclusively with
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Advice comes as a House bipartisan caucus on BOP reform is relaunched.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons should develop more reliable and consistent methods of using workforce data to help with hiring and retention and to improve employee well-being, a watchdog reported on Wednesday.
The Government Accountability Office issued a report about data collection and analysis methods at BOP, which has about 151,735 inmates and 37,402 employees nationwide. Staff recruitment and retention challenges have persisted during the coronavirus pandemic and despite the fact that the federal inmate population has decreased by 29% from 2013 to 2020, as the Justice Department inspector general reported in November.