Editor’s Note: This story was updated to clarify some details of the questions included in the survey.
Despite the Trump administration scrapping this year’s signature survey for assessing trends in the federal workforce, a new opportunity has emerged for federal employees to make their voices heard.
The Partnership for Public Service is launching its own version of the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, which it is calling the Public Service Viewpoint Survey. The assessment seeks to fill what would otherwise be a gap in federal workforce data, after the Office of Personnel Management’s decision to cancel FEVS for 2025.
Max Stier, president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, said creating an alternative survey for federal employees to take this year is “not the first choice, but the necessary choice.”
“The best choice would be for the government to continue to do what the law requires and what it has done for many years in a row,” Stier said in an interview with Federal News Network.
Surveying federal employees and collecting data is especially crucial for 2025, Stier said, due to the major changes the Trump administration has made to the federal workforce.
“If the data were important in prior years, it’s even more vital today when so much disruption and turmoil is occurring,” Stier said, adding that without the data, “it’s not just flying blind — it’s flying blind in a hurricane.”
An OPM spokesperson declined to comment.
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