Nearly two years after Chuck Sams took over as director of the National Park Service with a determination to improve employee morale, workforce morale continues to fall, employee flight from the agency is growing, and the agency’s directorate is failing to reverse those trends, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.
Citing internal Park Service documents and federal surveys it provided the Traveler with, PEER said the director has been slow to implement strategies that might reverse those trends. “National parks should be among the best places to work in government, not one of the worst,” said Timothy Whitehouse, PEER’s executive director.