Background
The Australian Public Service (APS) Employee Census is an opinion survey administered to all APS employees between May and June each year. It collects information on important workforce issues, such as:
- job satisfaction
- employee engagement
- performance management
- leadership
- general impressions of the APS.
CASA 2025 results
The APS Employee Census was conducted from 5 May to 6 June 2025. We increased our participation rate from 81 to 83 percent.
This year's results also show improvement in our overall engagement score of 73 (compared to 71 last year).
Our focus in 2024 on leadership, wellbeing and acceptable behaviour has resulted in positive improvements across a range of metrics, including:
- SES leadership
- health and wellbeing
- direction and priorities of agency including specific duties and responsibilities
- innovation.
Next steps
While there are areas where we are seeing positive improvements, there are other areas where more work is needed. We are committed to building on the positive progress we have made.
In response to the feedback from the APS census we have:
- implemented an agency-wide action plan to address areas where we can improve
- promoted divisional action planning to address issues that are specific to individual divisions.
We publish our results and associated agency-wide action plan below.
The APSC publishes information on interpreting, benchmarking and comparing the results.