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Public servants at two of Canada’s regional economic development agencies really, really like their work and the places they do it. Perhaps more so than anywhere else in the federal public service.

Employees at Western Economic Diversification Canada were consistently the most positive, on average, in response to a series of survey questions gauging employee engagement across more than 60 federal departments and agencies last year, according to an analysis by this newspaper. The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency wasn’t far behind.

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A total of 182,306 federal government employees responded to the 2019 Public Service Employee Survey, conducted between July and September. Formerly a triennial exercise, the survey is now conducted annually to measure bureaucrats’ opinions on their job, supervisors, work environment, and the like.

After reporting that public servants indicated more positive feelings about some major facets of their work life than they did when asked five years ago, this newspaper decided to take a deeper dive into the PSES data to examine historical, departmental and demographic patterns and trends.