2026 ATO Census highlights report

Highlights of the ATO's 2026 employee census results on employee engagement: say, stay, strive.

Highlights of the ATO's 2026 employee census results on leadership.

Highlights of the ATO's 2026 employee census results on communication and change.

Highlights of the ATO's 2026 employee census results on enabling innovation.

Highlights of the ATO's 2026 employee census results on psychological safety.

Highlights of the ATO's 2026 employee census results on wellbeing.

Highlights of the ATO's 2026 employee census results on flexible work.

Highlights of the ATO's 2026 employee census results on working in the APS.

Highlights of the ATO's 2026 employee census results on performance.

Highlights of the ATO's 2026 employee census results on retention.

Highlights of the ATO's 2026 employee census results on unacceptable behaviour.

How to interpret these results, demographic results and how we used these results.

Questions we asked on the 2026 census that other agencies didn't, use of census data and how we are acting on feedback.

Confidence that the agency will act on survey results.

Questions with the highest percentage positive and negative scores.

Questions that had the highest and lowest changes in the % positive score compared to the previous Census.