The Trump Administration canceled an annual federal workforce survey after officials raised concerns about diversity, equity, and inclusion themes included in the questionnaire.
Trump’s top personnel officer said Wednesday that the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, which evaluates worker satisfaction, will take a break this year while the content is reworked. As a result, the government will have less data on civil servants’ response to the first year of Trump’s historic reordering of the federal workforce.
“A transformed workforce requires a transformed Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey,” Scott Kupor, director of the Office of Personnel Management, said in a statement. “We are revising FEVS to remove questions added by the Biden-Harris Administration and to refocus on core administration priorities: to restore a high-performance, high-efficiency, and merit-based civil service. FEVS will be back next year, new and improved.”
The decision comes as the administration launches a review of government bureaus, such as the Smithsonian Institution, for alleged DEI content, and follows months of chaos prompted by mass firings and staff reorganizations.
The changes were first reported by the Federal News Network.
Kupor didn’t say how the agency would fulfill its legal requirement to conduct the annual survey. OPM delayed the survey in February “to reduce the administrative burden on agencies as they address President Trump’s urgent governmentwide priorities,” the agency said in a memo at the time.
The office also said it would remove 13 DEI-focused questions and add one about how effective agencies are at removing poor performers.
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