Of survey respondents, 14 percent said they work offsite full-time; 23 percent 3 or 4 days a week. Image: Vera Petrunina/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffThis year’s Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey shows little change on two topics of wide interest that were added to the survey in recent years, involving telework and poor performers in a work unit.
As of the time of the survey in the summer, two-thirds of respondents said they telework at least occasionally about the same as in the two prior years. Those numbers may have changed since then due to the White House urging agencies to have more employees working onsite and for more often starting in the fall.
Of survey respondents, 14 percent said they work offsite full-time; 23 percent 3 or 4 days a week; 17 percent 1 or 2 days per week; 4 percent once or twice a month; and 10 percent “very infrequently or on an unscheduled or short-term basis.” Those numbers are all within 1 percentage point of the results from 2022 and from 2021 (when not all the same questions were asked).
Of those who don’t telework, 21 percent said it is due to the nature of their jobs; 6 percent said their jobs would allow for it but management doesn’t permit it; 4 percent said they choose not to telework; and 1 percent said technical reasons prevent it. All were also the same as 2021 and 2022 or within a point or two.
Also holding nearly steady, with only a point or two difference, were responses to questions regarding what happens to poor performers in their work unit. Eighteen percent said such employees remain in the unit but improve over time; 41 percent that they remain in the unit and continue to underperform; 10 percent that they are removed or transferred; and 6 percent said that they quit. Twenty percent said they do not know while 19 percent said there are no poor performers in their work unit.
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