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 do leaders at Indonesia’s Best Workplaces do differently?
Key insights 92% of employees at Indonesia’s Best Workplaces say people are willing to give extra effort, against 75% at typical Indonesian companies. 89.1% say they generally trust their workplace, against 71.4% at typical Indonesian companies. 85.2% say management delivers on its promises, against 56.6% at typical Indonesian companies. Across the 2026 Best Workplaces in […]
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 […]
Indonesia’s First State-Owned Utility To Join The Best Workplaces List
On 17 August Indonesia marks 81 years of independence. A week earlier, PT PLN (Persero) became the first state-owned enterprise to make the Best Workplaces in Indonesia list. No BUMN had managed it before. The company that keeps the lights on for 96 million people across more than 17,000 islands now sits ninth in the […]
What Indonesia’s Homegrown Best Workplaces Do Differently
Key Insights Fair hearing if treated unjustly: 85.6% at Best Workplaces, 57.3% elsewhere. Best Workplaces in Indonesia give 55% of staff room to innovate. Typical: 35%. PLN reports 0.136% voluntary turnover across nearly 47,000 employees. Floodwater came through Indo Kordsa’s tyre cord plant in Bogor Regency on 4 March 2025. The site was evacuated, nobody […]
Best Workplaces in Indonesia 2026: Lessons From The Best
What separates Indonesia’s Best Workplaces™ is the everyday experience of work: whether leaders keep their word, people are treated fairly, and employees feel they have a real stake in what happens next. Every year Cisco Indonesia employees are encouraged to spend up to ten days volunteering, on causes they choose themselves. As Managing Director Cin […]
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 […]