Understanding and Improving Civilian Employer Experiences with Guard and Reserve Duty

In this report, researchers update and extend an earlier study to document the views of employers of reserve component (RC) members and reevaluate Department of Defense (DoD) policy, federal legislation, and state legislation. For this study, the researchers integrated the results of a multimethod approach that included interviews with subject-matter experts and RC members and the fielding of the 2022 DoD National Survey of Employers.