Few bright spots in sad survey of federal employees

The Washington Post: Federal workers have spoken, and they are not happy.

The Office of Personnel Management’s Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey was released on Friday, and the results are discouraging. The agency’s overall measure for employee satisfaction—what it terms federal workers’ “global satisfaction index”—dropped to 59 percent, down 4 percentage points since 2012. Meanwhile, little more than half of government employees (54 percent) responded positively about their compensation, compared to 59 percent in 2012 and 66 percent in 2010.

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