What's in the APS census

Justine Landis-Hanley and Miriam Webber explain some of the notable results from the latest APS census.

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00:00 The Australian Public Service Commission released the results of the 2023 APS

00:04 Census. Now this is a survey that is conducted in 104 APS agencies and it

00:10 asks staff to reflect on things like workplace culture, leadership and

00:15 workplace conditions. Now Miriam, it also asked staff to reflect on bullying and

00:19 harassment in their workplaces. So what were some of the results that we saw

00:22 from the agencies? Yeah, so it asked staff if they had perceived harassment or

00:27 bullying in their current workplace in the last 12 months. So Prime Minister and

00:31 Cabinet staff said they were doing pretty well. It was the lowest rate of

00:34 about 7.4%. Education and Treasury were also doing quite well. On the other end

00:40 of the spectrum, Home Affairs, one of the largest agencies, had the poorest rate of

00:45 13%. It's about two percentage points above agencies of its general size. The

00:51 Department of Veterans Affairs was also not doing too well just behind them and

00:55 Foreign Affairs and Trade also had a higher rate of reported bullying and

00:59 harassment. We also saw staff say whether or not they'd recommend their agency as

01:05 a good place to work and again we saw Home Affairs coming last, only 57% of

01:09 staff said they would recommend their agency as a workplace. Not much better in

01:13 Service of Australia, only 58% of staff. On the other hand though, we also saw

01:17 Prime Minister and Cabinet coming out on top. 83% of staff would recommend that

01:21 place to work at. We also interestingly saw staff say that they would go, 95%

01:27 of staff said they would go the extra mile when it came to doing work if they

01:30 needed to in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. So definitely a lot

01:34 of varied responses. We'll be following the APS Census over the next few weeks

01:38 and bringing you more information from it so please stay up to date with our

01:42 coverage.

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