Federal Workforce Data Website FedScope to Get a Redesign Amid Workforce Upheaval

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is redesigning FedScope, its platform that provides public data on the federal workforce.

The newly designed website will launch in the fall of 2025, and will include “interactive visuals, detailed datasets, and tools tailored to answer the most frequently asked questions about federal employment.”

OPM Acting Director Chuck Ezell says the move will promote transparency.

“By modernizing FedScope, we’re delivering on our promise to make federal workforce data easier to access and understand, ensuring the public and agencies alike have the information they need to make informed decisions,” said Acting Director Ezell.

In the meantime, OPM says the current FedScope website is undergoing “immediate enhancements.”

That includes publishing data on employee hires and separations through March 2025. The website had previously been current though fall 2024. 

But data experts point out that the system was never meant to track separations in real time and may not give a complete picture of what the federal workforce actually looks like months into the Trump Administration. 

“FedScope takes a few months to publish. It was never built to track personnel in real time. With everything happening so quickly, even perfect data would still lag,” wrote former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Army data scientist Abigail Hadad on LinkedIn. 

The need to modernize federal workforce data assets has been on the radar for a decade. In its press release, OPM blamed the Biden Administration for moving too slowly on it. 

“This is something we are prioritizing that the previous admin clearly didn’t,” said an OPM spokesperson.  

However, the Trump Administration and DOGE gutted the OPM unit handling FedScope, the Human Capital Data Management and Modernization unit, through multiple reductions in force.   

It’s also unclear what data the new website will have. Data on federal workforce race and ethnicity was removed earlier this year as part of President Trump’s orders to eliminate all diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility programs across government.