After the Office of Personnel Management canceled this year’s Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, competing ideas have emerged on how to approach the requirements for agencies to survey their employees, and what OPM’s role should be in those surveys for the long haul. We get perspectives from Rob Shriver, former OPM acting director and current managing director of the Civil Service Strong initiative at Democracy Forward — as well as Sydney Heimbrock, former executive director of the OPM Innovation Lab, and currently the public sector chief industry advisor at Qualtrics.

Plus, a new oral history project from the Volcker Alliance and the Organization of American Historians captures the voices of displaced federal employees, offering an unfiltered look at public service, policy and the personal toll of government downsizing. Jason Chernesky, director of the Federal Employees and Contractors Oral History Project, recently sat down with Federal News Network’s Terry Gerton to share more about the project.

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