Employee survey

An employee survey isn't a project.

It's a question.

And the most important thing about that question isn't how thoroughly it's worded. It's whether employees dare to answer honestly.

What an employee survey really is

An employee survey measures how your staff are doing.

Not what they tell you in meetings.
Not what you think they mean.
But what they actually mean, when no one is watching.

It can be wellbeing, engagement, leadership, culture or the work environment.

The purpose is simple: to give you information you wouldn't have gotten otherwise.

What separates a good survey from a bad one

Most surveys don't fail because the questions are wrong.

They fail because they're too long, too infrequent and too transparent.

A good employee survey is:

Short. Employees answer 3–5 questions honestly. They click their way through 60.

Frequent. One measurement a year tells you how people felt 6 months ago. That's too late.

Anonymous. Without anonymity you don't get the truth. You get the version people think you want to hear.

Followed up. Data without action is just documentation. Employees stop answering if nothing happens.

What you actually find out

A good survey tells you:

What the mood is, and which direction it's moving in.
Which teams or departments are struggling the most.
Whether there are problems with leadership, communication or workload.
Whether your employees would recommend you as a workplace to others.

This isn't data for an annual report.

It's data you act on. This week.

How it works in practice

You send a short questionnaire.
Employees answer anonymously, from their phone, in 2 minutes.
You see the results aggregated. Not who answered what.
You act on what stands out.

And then you do it again.

Not in a year. In a month.

When should you run an employee survey

Now.

Not because there's a problem.
But because you don't know whether there is one, unless you ask.

Most leaders find out an employee has been struggling when that person resigns.

A survey a month would have told you six months earlier.

Emplio makes it simple

Emplio is built for companies that don't have an HR department to run it.

You set it up in 5 minutes.
You send to the whole team with one click.
You see the results right away.

And you don't have to wait until January.