Federal Workers Less Engaged, Agency Rankings Show

Workplace engagement among federal employees as a whole fell in the most recent Best Places to Work in the Federal Government rankings from the Partnership for Public Service.

“The message is clear—after several years of improvement, there’s been a sharp decline” in worker engagement, Mallory Barg Bulman, vice president for research and evaluation at the partnership, told Bloomberg Law. The results from a survey of federal workers that got nearly 600,000 responses should be considered meaningful “feedback” for agency leaders, she said.

Some of the sharpest drops in employee engagement were at agencies that have made or proposed dramatic changes ...