The Fed's Best (and Worse) Places to Work

The federal government's Best Places to Work survey results have been published, and now I can finally see whether or not the bosses at the Transportation Security Administration are really so awful as Kolbi says they are. "Soul sucking evil demons in the depths of hells" I think they were termed?

Here are the results for TSA:

Ranking (out of 223 agencies of similar size):

Employee Skills/Mission Match = 203 of 223
Strategic Management = 220 of 223
Teamwork = 219 of 223
Effective Leadership = 221 of 223
Effective Leadership - Empowerment = 220 of 223
Effective Leadership - Fairness = 222 of 223
Effective Leadership - Leaders = 219 of 223
Effective Leadership - Supervisors = 208 of 223
Performance Based Rewards and Advancement = 222 of 223
Training and Development = 188 of 223
Support for Diversity = 211 of 223
Pay = 223 of 223
Family Friendly Culture and Benefits = 223 of 223
Work/Life Balance = 208 of 223

Ouch. Dead last in pay and family-friendliness, next to last in performance-based rewards and fair leadership, and dragging close to the ground on all other categories.

It looks like "soul-sucking evil demons" is an understatement.

Fair is fair, so here are the results for the State Department:

Ranking (out of 28 agencies of similar size):

Employee Skills/Mission Match = 5 of 28
Strategic Management = 5 of 28
Teamwork = 4 of 28
Effective Leadership = 3 of 28
Effective Leadership - Empowerment = 4 of 28
Effective Leadership - Fairness = 3 of 28
Effective Leadership - Leaders = 3 of 28
Effective Leadership - Supervisors = 3 of 28
Performance Based Rewards and Advancement = 5 of 28
Training and Development = 4 of 28
Support for Diversity = 3 of 28
Pay = 7 of 28
Family Friendly Culture and Benefits = 25 of 28
Work/Life Balance = 17 of 28

State kept it in the single digits for all but the last two categories. That's better than TSA, but still shows room for improvement.