News item | 05-12-2025 | 15:34
The central government has published a dashboard for external hiring. The dashboard provides central and accessible insight into the extent of external hiring and the number of vacancies per ministry.
This creates a clearer picture of where external efforts are taking place within the central government and where personnel shortages are occurring. The dashboard is available from today on dashboards.rijksoverheid.nl. This is in response to the so-called Roemer standard, in which it was agreed in 2010 that expenditure on external hiring may not exceed 10% of total personnel expenditure. This standard has been exceeded in recent years and the government wants to reduce external hiring in the near future.
The dashboard is updated twice a year, with the status as of July 1 and the status as of December 31.
Interim results for the first half of 2025
The dashboard currently shows the interim position for the first half of 2025, with reference date July 1, 2025. The government-wide hiring remains higher than the Roemer standard. This is partly due to scarce expertise in the field of ICT, for example. Less has been hired within BZK/VRO this year, but due to the departmental reshuffle from Herstel Groningen to BZK, the total hiring percentage remains virtually the same as of July 1.
The current dashboard is an interim position. The departments’ annual reports, which will be published in May, will report on the total expenditure on external hiring and provide an explanation if the standard is exceeded. The government-wide overview of external hiring will be included in the National Government Annual Report – and also in the new dashboard.
Responsibility of departments
Reducing external hiring is the responsibility of the departments themselves. They assess whether external deployment is necessary in specific cases for task performance and service provision. The data in the dashboard has been provided by all departments.
The dashboard is here to find.