2025 FEVS & Compliance with Recent Executive Orders

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced a series of updates about the annual Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS). The memo says that it aims to bring FEVS in line with Executive Orders (EO) signed by President Trump: EO 14,151 (Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing) and EO 14,168 (Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government). First, OPM announced that it would not administer FEVS in May 2025 as originally planned, thus deviating from the ordinary FEVS schedule. Second, the memo announced that OPM would remove 13 questions from FEVS that OPM labeled "DEIA" or "gender ideology-related" questions and that it would add a question about poor performers. Finally, the memo explained that OPM would go back through the FEVS data online and remove content that it deems related to DEIA or "gender ideology" and would label some past data as being inconsistent with President Trump's executive orders. It encourages agencies to do the same.