The Trump administration has axed this year’s trademark survey of federal employees on workplace motivation and job satisfaction.
The Office of Personnel Management, which administers the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, plans to take out questions included in the governmentwide poll by former President Joe Biden’s team and bring it back next year. Nevertheless, the decision leaves the public in the dark on morale of the federal workforce so far during the second Trump administration, after they have been rocked by staff layoffs and budget cuts.
“A transformed workforce requires a transformed Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey,” OPM Director Scott Kupor said in a statement shared with POLITICO’s E&E News. “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.”
Kupor added, “FEVS will be back next year, new and improved.”
