“The annual Best Places to Work in the Federal Government® rankings are produced by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service and Deloitte. The 2017 rankings include the views of more than 498,000 civil servants from 200 federal organizations on a wide range of workplace topics. Since the first rankings were released in 2003, they have provided a mechanism to hold agency leaders accountable for the health of their organizations; serve as an early warning sign for agencies in trouble; and offer a roadmap for improvement.”

Best Places to Work Agency Rankings – “The overall rankings are determined by the Best Places to Work index score, which measures employee engagement. The Office of Personnel Management withheld employee survey data from the Partnership until the first week of December on 21 small agencies and 165 subcomponents, making it impossible to include these organizations in 2017 rankings released on December 6. The new data will be analyzed and revised rankings for small agencies and subcomponents will be released in early 2018. The index score is not a combined average of an agency’s category scores. It is calculated using a proprietary weighted formula that looks at responses to three different questions in the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. The more the question predicts intent to remain, the higher the weighting.”