{"id":16241,"date":"2019-12-17T15:33:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T15:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/12\/17\/feds-maintain-resilient-engagement-despite-the-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:42:22","slug":"feds-maintain-resilient-engagement-despite-the-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/management\/2019\/12\/17\/feds-maintain-resilient-engagement-despite-the-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds maintain \u2018resilient\u2019 engagement despite the shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The federal workforce\u2019s engagement in their jobs dipped only slightly in 2019, despite a record-breaking government shutdown to start out the year, but some agency subcomponents fared worse than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Partnership for Public Service\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/bestplacestowork.org\/about\/\" target=_blank>Best Places to Work in the Federal Government<\/a> 2019 rankings, based on the results of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/management\/2019\/11\/07\/feds-are-satisfied-with-their-jobs-but-problems-persist\/\" target=_blank>2019 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey<\/a>, found that feds scored an average 61.7 points out of 100 in engagement, a .5 point drop from the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur country is blessed with an extraordinary and highly resilient government workforce. This year\u2019s engagement dropped modestly despite a tumultuous time for our nation\u2019s public servants \u2014 a time when about 800,000 of the 2 million federal employees were affected by a lengthy government shutdown, when there were a number of critical leadership vacancies across the government, and as many agencies had to deal with a variety of political headwinds,\u201d said Max Stier, president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, in a news release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The federal government still consistently lags behind the private sector\u2019s 77 average engagement score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Danny Werfel, leader of the Public Sector practice in North America at The Boston Consulting Group \u2014 which sponsored the study \u2014 and a former government employee, some of that difference stems from the private sector\u2019s enhanced ability to show employees what their career trajectory will look like and provide training and support for career enhancement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Werfel noted that the government is not a lost cause in competing with the private sector, as some agencies scored well above that average, such as NASA\u2019s 81.5, the highest of any large agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOne area where the public sector ranks higher than the private sector very consistently is in the connection that the employee has to the mission,\u201d said Werfel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI know NASA usually scores very highly in these things, and it\u2019s a credit to them, and the people there are very excited about the mission at NASA, and they should be. But I think that the data would show that employees are just as passionate about air safety at the Transportation Department, just as excited about food safety at FDA, just as excited about air quality at EPA, the list goes on and on. 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And that\u2019s not surprising, it\u2019s a lot of life change, and as a result the engagement scores can go down.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drastic drops in engagement are not a foregone conclusion, according to Werfel, as agencies that work hard to engage with their workforce throughout the process can make employees feel like the transition will dramatically improve their work toward the agency\u2019s mission, but the government doesn\u2019t reorganize often, meaning that there is no playbook of how to do it exactly right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2019 also marked a concerted push by the Trump administration to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/management\/hr\/2019\/07\/15\/opm-encourages-agencies-to-adopt-rigorous-employee-evaluations\/\" target=_blank>implement new employee management policies<\/a> that would make it easier to deal with poor-performing federal employees, but the Office of Personnel Management subcomponents 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