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During the COVID-related health crisis, many healthcare professionals felt the demands of the pandemic firsthand, presenting mainly psychological disorders. To anticipate the latter, the University Hospitals of Geneva began to offer psychological support to employees. Based on emergency psychology, a new service has been developed: proximity psychology. The support deployed within all departments enabled employees to express their difficulties in the moment and to normalize their experiences. This new role of local psychologists requires professionals who demonstrate the adaptability to meet employees where they are.
The Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) is a Web-based organizational climate survey administered annually by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. The survey targets full- or part-time, permanently employed civilian personnel from more than 80 U.S. government agencies. Despite increases in the scope, publicity, and uses of FEVS data, its response rate has gradually declined over time. In an effort to gauge the causes for nonresponse, this paper discusses results from an experiment fielded during the 2017 FEVS in which a portion of sampled individuals was given the opportunity to opt out from the survey. Before effectively being added to the “unsubscribe” list, however, the individual was asked to cite the primary reason for choosing not to take the FEVS. Using auxiliary information from the sampling frame, this article argues that inferences based on this item are valuable because opters out are generally representative of the larger pool of nonrespondents.
