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Released yesterday by the Office of Personnel Management, the first public survey of federal employees' job satisfaction in a decade revealed that less than half of those surveyed feel they receive sufficient recognition and over one-third are considering leaving their job. While questions about President Bush's attempts to outsource over 400,000 federal jobs were conspicuously absent from this four-month survey of over 100,000 federal workers (see WIT for Nov. 4, 2002), two-thirds of the workers indicated that privatization would not increase effectiveness. The study also revealed that despite attempts by the Bush administration to cut their raises and make it easier to reduce their health and retirement benefits (see WIT's for March 24, 2003, and Feb. 6, 2002), current pay levels and retirement benefits are both considered satisfactory by just under two-thirds of those surveyed.