Contact Jordan LaPier Director (202) 495-3320 jlapier@ourpublicservice.org OPM: Federal happiness stagnated in 2018, while survey participation tanked October 30, 2018 A measure of federal employees’ engagement inched higher in 2018 according to an annual governmentwide survey measuring attitudes toward management and compensation, but the number of feds who participated in the exercise dropped significantly compared with last year.