News Summary

• The Ottawa Citizen has published its first-ever best-workplace ranking of the 84 federal departments and agencies.
• For government workers, it’s a guide to where to get transferred to.
• For the rest of us, it says a lot about the size and breadth of a federal government that needs trimming.
• The average score was 52.64, the median 51.36.
• The 42 biggest, ranging in size from 746 employees (Office of Auditor General) to 52,499 (Canada Revenue Agency) have an average of 8,178 employees and score 49.19 on average.