Federal Work-Life Programs
The life of federal employees is never free of changes. Depending on how you take it, there might be good news for you or bad news. 90 percent of the federal employees (According to study) reveal that they consider their work to be of a great importance. This survey/study was conducted by the OPM (office of personnel management) and 75 percent of the responses that were made this year were positive than those made in the previous year’s study.
It’s however not vividly clear how we can analyze this level of engagement. The survey also revealed that there are around 65 percent of employees that consider themselves “engaged” and committed according to the benchmarks set by OPM. These benchmarks normally include the dedication effort and resilience of the employees for their job. The figure has not really seen changes in the past few years.
Apart from the usual stuff, the study based survey also played a huge role in making OPM understand whether the employees want to achieve a better work-life balance or whether they are satisfied with what they currently have to deal with. The survey revealed that the employees are welcoming the change.
One of the most popular program that is about to get introduced is that the schedule of the employees be made a lot more flexible than it currently is. This will allow them to manage doing non-work chores during their work time as well. There is a strong majority of people who don’t like having flexible time schedules but still it wasn’t surprising to see that around 90 percent of the employee participants gave an “Aye!” to the program.
There were other programs like the included child care program and the elder care program that received lower ratings of 72 percent and 66 percent respectively.
Even though there are divided opinions or whether these programs should be included in the work life of the employees or not, to us, these are positive steps and need to be implemented sooner rather than later.
