Contact Jordan LaPier Director (202) 495-3320 jlapier@ourpublicservice.org The Best Places to Work Within the Federal Government, Ranked June 29, 2021 During the pandemic year of 2020, employees of federal agencies were generally less satisfied at work than their private sector counterparts, according to a new study. In their annual Best Places to Work in the Federal Government report, the Partnership for Public Service and Boston Consulting Group found that the average employee satisfaction score for all federal workers was 69 points out of 100. That’s eight points lower than the average employee satisfaction score for workers in the private sector—77 points.