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In general, research on the application of Corporate Social Responsibility has focused on private companies. Despite the importance of the public sector as an employer in many countries, little is known about its involvement in the application of social responsibility in general and, particularly, its internal dimension. The objective of this work is to know the evaluation of public employees in Uruguay on the Internal Social Responsibility of the public organizations in which they work (central government, departmental governments, public companies, etc.). A random sample of 183 public employees residing in the different regions of this country was chosen, to whom a questionnaire was sent via advertising on Facebook. The perception of Internal Social Responsibility was operationalized with eleven indicators, which were measured with a Likert scale of agreement. The questionnaire included a battery of segmentation variables, each of which operationalizes a factor that could exert some kind of influence on that perception. It was found that a negative opinion predominates on the application of Internal Social Responsibility of public organizations and companies. It was also found that this opinion is strongly associated with the type of tasks that the respondents perform and with their membership in a union. In addition, this opinion is slightly associated with their ideological profile. However, it was independent of the socio-demographic profile (gender, age, educational level, region of residence), salary level, or seniority in the company.
