APS Employee Census

2025 APS Employee Census

National Archives' 2025 Australian Public Service Employee Census results are outlined in the highlights report. 

Download the 2025 highlights report (PDF 1.5 MB).

The main observations from National Archives' census results:

  • Our scores for the 6 key census indices have remained mostly stable this year, largely maintaining the improvements of the past several years. The 'Enabling innovation' index has recorded an improvement of +4 for the second consecutive year:
    • Employee engagement – 75 out of 100
    • Leadership – immediate supervisor – 79 out of 100
    • Leadership – SES manager – 71 out of 100
    • Communication and Change – 69 out of 100
    • Enabling Innovation – 70 out of 100
    • Wellbeing Policies and Support – 68 out of 100

Compared to 2024, some of our biggest improvements this year are in response to the following statements:

  • People are recognised for coming up with new and innovative ways of working (+12).
  • My agency recognises and supports the notion that failure is a part of innovation (+12).
  • My agency inspires me to come up with new or better ways of doing things (+7).
  • In my agency, the SES clearly articulate the direction and priorities for our agency (+6).
  • I believe one of my responsibilities is to continually look for new ways to improve the way we work (+6).

As an agency, we are continuing to strengthen National Archives' workforce capacity and capability and will continue to focus on attracting, retaining and developing a high-performing workforce.

Outlined in the Agency action plan are our focus areas over the next 12 months:

  • One-Archives approach to working with each other
  • Uplift the health and wellbeing of our employees
  • Access to contemporary tools and resources.

2025 highlights report Excel version (XLSX 41 kB).

2024 APS Employee Census

National Archives' 2024 Australian Public Service Employee Census results are outlined in the highlights report.

Download the 2024 highlights report (PDF 1.38 MB).

2023 APS Employee Census

National Archives' 2023 Australian Public Service Employee Census results are outlined in the highlights report.

Download the 2023 highlights report (PDF 1.3 MB).

2022 APS Employee Census

National Archives' 2022 Australian Public Service Employee Census results are outlined in the highlights report.

Download the 2022 highlights report (PDF 1.6 MB).

2021 APS Employee Census

National Archives' 2021 Australian Public Service Employee Census results are outlined in the highlights report.

Download the 2021 highlights report (PDF 1.2 MB).

2020 APS Employee Census

National Archives' 2020 Australian Public Service Employee Census results are outlined in the highlights report.

Download the 2020 highlights report (PDF 1.1 MB).