Postal Pulse: New program aims to better engage employees

Postal Pulse

New program aims to better engage employees

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USPS will soon introduce the Postal Pulse, a program that aims to improve postal workplaces by better engaging employees and leveraging their ideas and feedback.

The Postal Pulse will replace the Voice of the Employee survey.

The new program will include one survey of the entire USPS workforce in 2015. This survey will be administered in March.

Beginning in 2016, all employees will be surveyed twice a year.

The Postal Pulse also will include resources to help supervisors interpret the results and put employees’ ideas into action.

The initiative aligns with PMG Megan Brennan’s goal to invest in postal employees.

“As Postmaster General Brennan says, our employees are the bedrock of our success, and their ideas and insights are crucial to our future,” said Chief Human Resources Officer Jeff Williamson. “Through the Postal Pulse program, we’ll work together to strengthen our workplaces and continue moving our organization forward.”

USPS: Additional details will be announced soon.

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7 Responses to "Postal Pulse: New program aims to better engage employees"

  1. I agreed with all of you.. I will not participate in this survey…because its not going to benefit the working employees. It was never designed for that purpose…management is up to no good all over. The Managers and the Supervisors are so awful in hearing employees concerns about the workplace ethnics. Because, the Managers and Supervisors are so incompetent and lazy. Why should, we employees work so hard for imbecile that the USPS has hired and give them bonuses at the end of fiscal year.

  2. In the past, the USPS asked how we would rate our pay and benefits compared to other places. Many people rated it better than other places. They took those responses into the contract negotiations and argued that the employees were satisfied with the current pay when the unions were negotiating for wage increases. That is why we should not participate. They are looking for us to give them a bargaining chip.

  3. I’m a 24 yrs Mail Handler at North Metro P&DC in Duluth, Ga. I fear for my safety because of the unsecured entrances we have around our facility.We are the only plant in the district that doesn’t have a “around the clock “security department but yet The Atlanta District Personnel are located here. If a assement team come here and conduct a walk though investigation, they will discover the negligence for employees safety and we are a major target for a terrorist attack. These Managers here are so awful in hearing employees concerns about this. When I brought to the Plant Manager [names removed by PEN] attention related to my unsafe workplace she retaliated and close a entrance that the employees had privileges of using to conduct APCU OR Postal Store Business that were allowed for over 15 yrs. So how this Survey can help me and my coworker when it’s top Managerment [names removed by PEN] don’t care about us? Let the retaliation begin….

    Sonya – thank you for your post – please do not post individuals names. PEN

  4. This is quote from a time long before the Internet, computers, cellphones, text messages, web conferences and yes even fax machines:

    “Working for the Post Office Department is like working for a company that constantly operates like it is going out of business”. – Unknown in 1909

    Does this quote still hold relevance today?

    Before you answer, ponder the article Rural Americans, Postcards, and the Fiscal Transformation of the Post Office Department, 1909-1911 by Dan Gifford, PhD.

    One hundred and six years later, the now USPS is once again, or should I say still, operating with some “skepticism and revisionism from various interests”. It might be time for the USPS to learn from its past. Perhaps a better return on its investment would be to asks its employees questions related to ideas on how the USPS can obtain it’s next “postcard”. One never knows, there might actually be another Robert Moon among its employees!

  5. If u go to the grocery store,u are allowed to take food home, provided u pay for it. If u do not pay for it, u are not allowed to take it home. Article 3 vs. Article 8. How on earth did we drop this ball. Who knows whats ahead with postal pulse

  6. This is a great idea. It would be a great service for the entire employee base including the unions. Give it a couple of years for the results.

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