Internal FTC survey: overall satisfaction among staff has dropped from 89% in 2020 to 60% in 2021; in an email, Lina Khan pledges to fix sinking staff morale
Under both Republican and Democratic administrations, the Federal Trade Commission has consistently ranked in the top five … Tweets: @cswilsonftc , @cswilsonftc , @heynottheface , @cswilsonftc , @opinonhaver , @profwrightgmu , @opinonhaver , @profwrightgmu , @profwrightgmu , @davidsirota , @theinformation , @joshua_sisco , @ne0liberal , @amir , @ddayen , @ne0liberal , and @carnage4life Tweets: Christine S. Wilson / @cswilsonftc : Under new leadership, the @FTC has gone from first to worst in major metrics. Tragic for the agency, for consumers, and for government credibility. OPM Federal Employee Survey Results provide detail. https://www.opm.gov/... https://twitter.com/... Christine S. Wilson / @cswilsonftc : The @FTC has been a gem of an agency, a community of professionals dedicated to protecting consumers. New leadership has marginalized and disrespected staff, resulting in a brain drain that will take a generation to fix. OPM survey results tell the story. https://twitter.com/... John S. Nash / @heynottheface : The FTC for years had high survey results for employee satisfaction and now they're in the gutter. They also didn't enforced antitrust in 20 years everyone liked working there, so I'm not sure what to make of it. https://twitter.com/... Christine S. Wilson / @cswilsonftc : Shifting focus from agency leadership, we find good news in the @FTC federal employee survey results: immediate supervisors ranked #1 in “trust and confidence” among agencies. Our dedicated and talented managers have long received (well-deserved) high marks from their teams. https://twitter.com/... William B. Fuckley / @opinonhaver : the FTC has an actually effective head now and all of the hacks that republicans put in are trying to undermine and destroy her. https://twitter.com/... Joshua Wright / @profwrightgmu : 5. The result that really jumps off the page to suggest this disconnect isn't merely growing pains or ideological is the “honesty and integrity” one. Nearly one-third of the agency (up from 4%) think agency leadership isn't honest. Let that sink in. That's a real problem.(5/x) William B. Fuckley / @opinonhaver : very frustrating that inside baseball shit like this can be hugely important and there's very little media infrastructure to convey it to the electorate outside of political nerds. one of the ways in which the imbalance in media/policy ecosystems tilts the playing field. Joshua Wright / @profwrightgmu : 1. FTC staff are, on average, in the non-ideological to political left range. It might be hard for someone with my views to be a popular FTC chair among staff. But not for current leadership. Incentives are aligned. They want to bring cases! And win them. So what gives? (2/x) Joshua Wright / @profwrightgmu : These FTC staff survey results are truly problematic. The spin from Chair Khan's supporters that “this is just staff upset with aggressive leadership” is neither accurate nor helping her cause. A few thoughts: (1/x) https://twitter.com/... David Sirota / @davidsirota : FTC staff upset that the new boss expects them to actually do their damn jobs https://www.theinformation.com/ ... @theinformation : FTC Chief Lina Khan has vowed to understand the “root causes” of sinking staff morale that threatens to undermine the agency's antitrust efforts. https://thein.fo/eSeaPg9 Josh Sisco / @joshua_sisco : The “overall trends are not where we want them to be,” Khan said thu in a staff email about the results of a staff satisfaction survey, pledging to “understand the root causes” & “strengthen communication and relationships more broadly within the agency.” https://www.theinformation.com/ ... @ne0liberal : There's something Trumpian about Khan: not that she's right wing, but in how she wants to act beyond her agency's remit. My guess is Khan asks staff to do stuff outside the FTC's actual authority and doesn't know who to blame for staffers not using that non existent authority. Amir Efrati / @amir : New: Morale has dropped considerably at antitrust agency @FTC under Chair Lina Khan. She told staff she will work on it. A management consultant has been tasked to help her. By @joshua_sisco https://www.theinformation.com/ ... David Dayen / @ddayen : For many years FTC staff was happy to be failures and not work too hard and now that they're expected to actually fulfill their mission they're pissed off https://www.theinformation.com/ ... @ne0liberal : Who could possibly have predicted Lina Khan's ‘pick lots of fights and burn it all down’ style would be a fiasco? https://www.theinformation.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... @carnage4life : Whenever I read about how Lina Khan and progressives want to punish Amazon, I always wonder what is Amazon doing that Walmart isn't doing and why doesn't the FTC want to break up Walmart? https://www.theinformation.com/ ...