OPM strips gender-identity items from the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey
- Date
- Actor
- Office of Personnel Management
- Type
- Data/communications
Summary
OPM modifies the 2025 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) to conform to the January 2025 executive orders, removing demographic and climate items associated with gender identity and DEI from the government-wide workforce survey — eliminating the principal dataset measuring transgender federal employees' workplace experience. (See also section 12.)
Status
In effect for the 2025 and 2026 survey cycles.
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Sources
Cite this action
Memorandum from Charles Ezell, Acting Dir., Off. of Pers. Mgmt., to Heads & Acting Heads of Departments & Agencies, 2025 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey and Compliance with Recent Executive Orders (Feb. 28, 2025), https://www.opm.gov/chcoc/transmittals/2025/Memo%20on%20FEVS%20ReportsFINAL.pdf.
Short form: Memorandum from Charles Ezell, Acting Dir., Off. of Pers. Mgmt., to Heads & Acting Heads of Departments & Agencies, 2025 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey and Compliance with Recent Executive Orders (Feb. 28, 2025), https://www.opm.gov/chcoc/transmittals/2025/Memo%20on%20FEVS%20ReportsFINAL.pdf.