The Results Are In! Government Has Failed To Properly Train Federal Employees

The results are in! Less than 20% of Federal Employees are satisfied with the retirement training they have received. -75% report receiving no training at all.

Nearly 1 Million Federal Employees were asked to participate in the 2015 Year-End Retirement Survey conducted by PSRetirement.com. After tabulating the responses, and apart from the surprising number of Federal Employees that were left unsatisfied with their training, there were also a few other interesting insights into the retirement training that the Federal Employees are currently receiving.

¾ of Federal Employees Surveyed Report Receiving ZERO Retirement Training

According to PSRetirement.com’s 2015 Retirement survey over 75% of Federal Employee respondents have not had any retirement training at all. Of the Federal Employees surveyed less than 20% of those stating they have received training also state that they are satisfied with the training they received

Federal Employees Prefer One-On-One Retirement Training

Responding to the type of benefit training these Federal Employees would prefer:

• 42.5% of Federal Employees selected one-on-one training as their preferred method
• 29% of Federal Employees chose group training;
• A surprisingly large number of Federal Employees (28.5%) specifically requested interactive online training, which is something that is predominantly unavailable.

One thing is certain Federal Employees believe that their employer should be doing a better job of training employees on their retirement benefits. We happen to agree.