Employee
Pulse Surveys

Employee pulse surveys are a great way to make sure that you know what is going on with your organisation, but only if they are fast and easy to complete.

You get the best results when people are motivated to respond. The best way to motivate people to respond is to make sure they don't feel it is hard or time-consuming.

The best employee pulse surveys often only ask 3-5 questions and take no more than a couple of minutes for the employee to respond.

If you could only ask one question of your employees, what would you want to know?

For employee pulse surveys, focusing in to just a couple of the most important things to track within your organisation is going to be key.

We often recommend using the eNPS question ("how likely is it that you would recommend [your organisation] to a friend or relative as a place to work?"), then adding a rateable question focused for your organisation and finishing with an open-ended question like "Please suggest one thing that could be changed for the better"

Employee pulse surveys are meant to help keep your finger on the pulse of your organisation by checking the temperature regularly.

Depending on the culture and makeup of your organisation, you should be doing an employee pulse survey every 2-6 weeks, but whatever that cadence is it needs to be predicable and constant to get the best results. Your employees will quickly get into the rhythm of giving feedback and will expect the next survey to happen on time!