The Australian Public Service Commission (APSC) has published its latest State of the Service Report concluding that the Australian Public Service (APS) emerged from the critical demands of the year to June positively and will use its experience to face the complex future that lies ahead.
Writing in the 2020-21 Report, APS Commissioner Peter Woolcott said that while there was ‘no start or date’ for changing reform of the APS, ‘there are times when the need for ambitious reform is pronounced”.
“Changes that in many respects were already underway in the APS have accelerated as the need for an agile APS, oriented to the needs of the community and the Australian recovery, became more important,” Mr Woolcott said.
“One of the successes of this period has been that ability of the APS to work together”, he said.
“The Secretaries Board and the Chief Operating Officers sub-Committee of the Board have worked hand in glove to drive the concept of the APS as one enterprise.”
The statistics published with the Report indicate that the typical APS employee in the year to June was a full-time 44-year-old, female working as an APS-5 in Services Australia in Canberra.
The typical member is one of a total workforce that grew by 3,500 members in the year to June this year, taking the total workforce to 153,945 members, an increase of 2.3 per cent over the 12 months.
She is also in a national workforce that includes 92,674 female employees, 6,311 employees with disability, 5,388 Aboriginal and Torres Strait island employees, 10,766 LGBTIQA+ members, 24,939 members born in a non-English country and 34,329 workmates born overseas.
Her workmates include 13.9% part-time, 5.5% casual and 80.6% full-time staff members.
At age 44, she is at the very top of the most popular age-group in the APS, the 36-44 group.
The Australian Public Commission’s 150-page APS State of the Service Report can be accessed at this PS News link.
