NASA's Ranked 3rd in Best Places to Work in the Federal Government

The Partnership for Public Service has released their 2009 rankings for the Best Places to Work in the Federal Government.  The data used to develop these rankings were based on the Office of Personnel Management’s biennial Federal Human Capital Survey completed during August and September of 2008.  About 211,000 employees at 260 departments, agencies and sub-components were surveyed.

NASA's workforce continues to score well on this survey and is now ranked 3rd overall among large Federal agencies. An award was accepted on behalf of the Agency at a special briefing held by the Partnership on May 21, 2009.

The best places to work index is based on employee responses to questions about whether they are satisfied with their jobs and with their organization, and whether they would recommend their organizations as good places to work. In addition to this overall index, agencies and subcomponents were also scored in 10 workplace environment (“best in class”) categories such as effective leadership, employee skills/mission match and work/life balance. On seven of these best in class categories NASA ranked second, including effective leadership, support for diversity, teamwork, training and performance based rewards.

Among the overall index rankings of 216 subcomponents, three NASA Centers were in the top 20: Johnson Space Center (4th), Marshall Space Flight Center (15th) and Goddard Space Flight Center (18th).

You may view a complete listing of the rankings and scores for all federal components at: http://bestplacestowork.org/BPTW/rankings/