“How do professionals starting their federal careers feel about the agencies they serve, and how well are those agencies managing their new class of public servants? In an era of career flexibility and job fluidity, what does it take to build a federal government workforce of the future? These are the questions the Partnership for Public Service and Deloitte set out to understand in this Best Places to Work in the Federal Government® snapshot analysis — based on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) 2010 employee survey. The good news for government is that a majority of new employees under the age of 30 report high levels of overall satisfaction when it comes to their specific jobs and agencies. The three agencies that top the overall satisfaction rankings are the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The government-wide overall satisfaction index score for this cohort of new employees is 75 percent of 100), 10 points above the score for employees of all ages employed for any length of time. Out of 26 agencies, only four scored below 70 percent.”