For the fifth straight year NASA was ranked as the best place to work among large agencies, followed by the Commerce Department and the intelligence community.
In the latest ranking by the Partnership for Public Service, the FDIC topped midsized agencies followed by the GAO and Peace Corps, and the National Endowment for the Arts led small agencies, followed by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and OMB. At the bottom were, respectively, DHS, VA and Army; Broadcasting Board of Governors, SBA and the Archives; and FEC, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board and the Selective Service System.
Agencies showing gains included Agriculture, DHS and Labor among the largest; the SEC, National Archives and Records Administration and HUD among the midsize; and NEA, the International Boundary and Water Commission and the Millennium Challenge Corporation among the smallest. The largest decreases in the three categories were, respectively, SSA, Air Force and Justice; NRC, NLRB and Education; and the Surface Transportation Board, FEC and the TSP’s administering agency.
The rankings are based on results from the annual Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey and other data which the organization translates into an overall employee engagement index score. In particular it focuses on whether employees would recommend their organization as a place to work, and their levels of satisfaction with their own job and with the organization in general.
“According to our analysis, effective leadership continues to be the key driver for federal employees in 2016, as it has been every year since the rankings were first launched in 2003,” the organization said. However, “effective leadership has continuously been one of the lowest-rated workplace categories, and 2016 followed this trend” with a score second-lowest among the 10 aspects of working that were ranked, above only employee views of whether rewards and advancement reflect an employee’s job performance.
