Each year, a substantial number of APS employees relocate interstate and overseas. During 2012–13, 12,367 ongoing employees relocated, through promotion or transfer. There were net moves away from the ACT (1,981) and the NT (51), with net moves to NSW (672), Vic (451), QLD (329), SA (233), WA (202) and Tas (100).
Figure 7.7 shows that APS employees in cities have more interagency experience than those employed in regional locations. APS employees in regional areas were more likely than those employed in capital cities to have worked for a single agency only.
Figure 7.7 Interagency mobility by state and territory, 2012–13
Source: APSED
More than 30% of Canberra-based employees (31.2%) had worked for two or three agencies. Similarly, 19.5% of Darwin employees, 19.5% of regional NT employees and 18.1% of Brisbane-based APS employees had worked for two or three agencies. Furthermore, 7.3% of Canberra employees had worked for four or more agencies, along with 2.4% of Darwin employees and 1.8% of Brisbane employees.
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Table of contents
- State of the Service 2012-13
- Chapter 1 - Commissioner's overview
- Chapter 2 - Leadership and culture
- Chapter 3 - Integrity and ethics
- Chapter 4 - Employee health and wellbeing
- Chapter 5 - Diversity
- Chapter 6 - Workforce planning and strategy
- Chapter 7 - The national perspective of the APS
- Chapter 8 - The APS in the Asian century
- Chapter 9 - Flexible work
- Chapter 10 - Organisational capability
- Appendix 1 - Workforce trends
- Appendix 2 - APS agencies (or semi-autonomous parts of agencies)
- Appendix 3 - Survey methodologies
- Appendix 4 - Unscheduled absence
- Appendix 5 - Asia effective organisational capabilities
- Appendix 6 - Agency capability level definitions
- Appendix 7 - Women in senior leadership
- Glossary