RELATED April 24, 2025 New Partnership for Public Service polling shows majority of the American public concerned about cuts to the federal workforce and government services April 23, 2025 Ready, Set…Wait: Nominee Experiences through the Senate Confirmation Process March 27, 2025 Max Stier’s statement for the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs hearing on "VA Accountability and Transparency" Back to Reports GAO’s Recent Personnel Reform May 22, 2007 On May 22, 2007, Partnership President and CEO, Max Stier, delivered testimony at a joint House/Senate subcommittee hearing on GAO personnel reform. In the testimony he asserted that GAO is on the right track with its performance based and market sensitive approach to compensation. He mentioned that GAO is the number two agency in the Best Places to Work rankings and talked about the need for regular employee evaluations and pulse surveys to gage employee satisfaction. In his testimony he also recommended that Congress independently review and evaluate the data and metrics that GAO gathers on their new hire rate, acceptance rate, and retention rate and calculate GAO’s return on investment. Download (166k)