7 Questions To Ask Before Choosing an Employee Experience Platform
Key Insights 69% of employees hit at least one barrier using HR technology in the past year. Only 24% of HR staff say their function gets full value from the tech it owns. Ask vendors for weekly manager usage, not total logins. Gartner surveyed more than 1,200 employees and found 69% had run into at […]
How to Share Your Employee Survey Results
According to research by Gallup, only 8% of employees strongly agree that their organization takes action on the surveys it runs. That means that more often than not, the other 92 percent filled in a form and then felt like nothing happened. We see that gap open up time and again in the weeks after […]
We have offices in multiple countries. How should we benchmark workplace culture?
Key insights You can compare workplace culture between countries when the core survey questions are identical. Keeping 70 to 80 percent of questions identical across countries is what makes the comparison genuine. A low-scoring office improving fast is usually healthier than a high-scoring one sliding backwards. A 26-country study of survey response styles found Japan […]
What Makes Employee Engagement Scores Crash
Key insights Falling engagement usually traces back to leadership gaps, patchy communication and employees losing sight of why their work matters. Great Place To Work research shows trust predicts retention, innovation and business performance more reliably than an engagement score does. Patterns only appear once you segment survey results by team, department and manager. Your […]
How to Turn Employee Feedback Into Action
KEY INSIGHTS Employee feedback analysis requires looking beyond surface-level scores to uncover patterns across themes. Root cause diagnosis helps you identify why engagement challenges exist, not just where they appear in survey data. Great Place To Work’s Trust Index Survey gives organizations research-backed insights that connect employee feedback to culture improvement. Collecting employee feedback […]
What are Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)?
The inclusion gap 83% vs 59% Employees who say their ERG is effective are far more likely to feel included at work: 83%, compared with 59% for employees who rate their ERG ineffective, according to McKinsey research involving almost 25,000 employees. For HR leaders, employer branding teams and people managers, ERGs can be one of […]
How to Run an Employee Experience Survey People Trust
KEY INSIGHTS Trust relies on clear confidentiality and visible follow-through. Only ask questions your organization can act on. Managers influence participation more than reminder emails do. The survey link arrives. Someone opens it on their phone between meetings, scans the questions and wonders two things: ‘Will anyone know what I say?’ and ‘Will anything […]
Workplace Culture Benchmarks: What Top HR Teams Do Differently
KEY INSIGHTS Workplace culture benchmarks are powerful only when they match your workforce. Most culture benchmarks measure sentiment, not the conditions that drive retention and performance. Leading organisations use external benchmarks as context and rely on layered internal comparisons to decide what to fix. On paper, many workplaces look like engagement success stories. Their benchmarked […]
Which External Signals Have the Biggest Impact on Employer Reputation?
KEY INSIGHTS Employee reviews outrank polished employer messaging. A poor hiring process becomes public before day one. Leaders build credibility when their actions match their words. A candidate has one thumb scrolling through job listings, the other through reviews from people who have worked at the company. Your new careers video may be beautifully […]
Best Workplace Recognition Programs for Company Culture
Key Insights Recognition functions as a daily signal of what a workplace values, not a program that runs once a year. In O.C. Tanner research, 37% of employees said more personal recognition would encourage them to produce better work more often. The Trust Index survey measures recognition directly, so leaders can see where appreciation lands […]