Big or small, well known or unknown, overstaffed government agencies could use a cost-cutting employee trim. Photo by Rawpixel/Getty Images/Postmedia files

Just in time for the federal budget, the Ottawa Citizen has published its first-ever best-workplace ranking of the 84 federal departments and agencies that employ more than 350,000 civil servants. For government workers, it’s a guide to where to get transferred to. For the rest of us, it says a lot about the size and breadth of a federal government that needs trimming.

The federal government conducts its own extensive survey of job satisfaction and other things. Though it’s very detailed with hundreds of potential questions more than half of federal employees fill it out, a very high response rate for such things. Do you suppose

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