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• OPM proposes ‘decentralized’ FEVS with fewer questions and less transparency - July 7, 2026

• Agencies would be expected to conduct their own workforce surveys each year, with little rules on how much, or how little, they divulge to the public about it.

  Erich Wagner, Government Executive

  The Office of Personnel Management last week proposed new regulations that would end the HR agency’s annual administration of the Federal Employees Viewpoint Survey, instead passing the task along to individual agencies with fewer guardrails and less transparency.

  OPM Director Scott Kupor announced the plan in a blog post, arguing without evidence that the annual survey of federal employee engagement and job satisfaction had become a “box-checking exercise” for some agencies and a “vanity” project for others. The proposed changes come after OPM failed to administer the FEVS in 2025, a violation of federal statute.

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