{"id":3377,"date":"2023-06-09T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3377"},"modified":"2023-06-09T12:02:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T12:02:33","slug":"oversight-watch-state-agencies-struggling-to-retain-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3377","title":{"rendered":"Oversight Watch: State Agencies Struggling to Retain Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/oversight-watch-state-agencies-struggling-to-retain-employees\/\">https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/oversight-watch-state-agencies-struggling-to-retain-employees\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/FF060220231.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><b>A note from IRG Hamilton Roddis Fellow Andrew Mazza:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>The Wisconsin Policy Forum released a report this Tuesday calling attention to the 16.4% turnover and 17.7% vacancy rates of FY 2022 among non-UW state agency employees, both of which are record highs.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span>A whopping 10.2% of the 28,000 employees left for voluntary reasons. The Departments of Veterans Affairs (DVA), Corrections (DOC), and Health Services (DHS) are especially suffering with 2022 turnover rates of 27.8%, 19.3%, and 19.0%, respectively, and vacancy rates of 46.1%, 23.4%, and 16.4% respectively.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span>This high rate of vacancies breeds concerns over a drop in average years of department experience\u20141.2 year average experience drop from 2014 to 2022\u2014as well as the potential burnout of the remaining employees.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span>The report identifies pay, working conditions, and burnout from high vacancy rates as possible factors driving voluntary agency employee exits but points to the need for a deeper investigation.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>To read the full report visit:<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wispolicyforum.org\/research\/state-government-workforce-churn-reaches-historic-heights\/\"> <span>the Wisconsin Policy Forum<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/oversight-watch-state-agencies-struggling-to-retain-employees\/ A note from IRG Hamilton Roddis Fellow Andrew Mazza:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":3228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institute-for-reforming-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3379,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions\/3379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}