OPM to expand employee survey to all workers
This year's Employee Viewpoint Survey will go out to 1.8 million feds.
The Office of Personnel Management is expanding its annual Employee Viewpoint Survey to cover virtually the entire federal workforce this year.
In a memo to agency heads, OPM Director John Berry said this will mark the first time since the survey was launched in 2002 that it will go out to all permanent employees, both full- and part-time.
The agency plans to poll 1.8 million workers, triple the number who were surveyed in 2011.
"While a governmentwide census will not be conducted every year," Berry said, "having large numbers of respondents will allow agencies the opportunity to analyze results and develop action plans at lower levels in the organization this year."
The memo said that staffers from OPM's Office of Planning and Policy Analysis would work closely with agency representatives to "to ensure a seamless implementation" of the survey.
OPM will begin the process of sending out the survey in April.