WASHINGTON (AP) — Exploring space makes employees happy, and federal employees like everyone else prefer working from home.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Exploring space makes employees happy, federal workers like everyone else prefer working from home, and government agencies that have suffered from low morale are showing improvement.
Those were some of the highlights from a survey of more than 1 million federal employees released Monday.
In a city centered around the federal government, the annual Great Places to Work survey is a notable annual event worthy of bragging rights. However, only if the person who tops the investigation is affiliated with one of the agencies such as NASA or the Office of the Comptroller.
The survey uses information from the Office of Personnel Management's Federal Employee Perspective Survey and is produced by the Partnership for Public Service and Boston Consulting Group.
It covers 532 federal agencies, including 17 large agencies, 26 medium-sized agencies, 30 small agencies, and 459 subordinate agencies. This ranking was first published in his 2003 year, and high-performing agencies are known to post their results on their websites.
NASA has held the top spot for 12 years, a fact that NASA Administrator Bill Nelson praised as a “team of wizards” and that the agency promoted on its website.
Topping the list of large agencies was NASA, and topping the list of medium-sized agencies was the Government Accountability Service (also known as “Congress' watchdog” because it examines how the government spends money). The National Gambling Board of India appears in the survey for the first time, ranking first among smaller institutions.
In contrast, the Social Security Administration remained at the bottom of 17 large agencies. The scores of the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development declined for the second year in a row, leaving them near the bottom in their respective categories. The Export-Import Bank of the United States was at the bottom of the small agency category, while the Federal Bureau of Prisons was at the bottom of his list of subcomponents with a score of 38.1 out of 100.
The survey measures job satisfaction and engagement on a scale of 0 to 100. The survey found a slight increase in overall job satisfaction and engagement for all federal employees to 65.7. This is an increase of 2.3 percentage points compared to the 2022 figure.
Among large agencies, the Department of Homeland Security saw the most improvement. The department is the third-largest department in the federal government, with about 260,000 employees doing everything from responding to natural disasters to patrolling the Mexican border. The organization, created in response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, has often been plagued by morale problems.
The investigation doesn't say what the agency did to improve its rankings, but one answer may be found in a Reddit subgroup for federal employees. The agency's leader, Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, may make history as the second Cabinet member to be impeached over Republican anger over his role in immigration, but among the agency's vast staff, he is known for his generosity. A policy sometimes referred to as St. Mayorkas because of the holidays. Under his watch, front-line workers at the Transportation Security Administration have also received big raises.
In an important post-pandemic development, telework has proven just as popular among federal employees as it is in the private sector. Federal employees who teleworked full-time had the highest score of 74.6 out of 100 compared to other employees who worked at headquarters or field offices. Approximately 54% of federal employees have adopted hybrid work schedules, and 14% are telecommuting full-time, according to the data. Approximately 32% report to work each day. These numbers are about the same as his 2022 numbers.
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