Keep your team engaged

How can you improve retention and boost productivity all while engaging your team? Employee pulse surveys are an easy, automated way to understand how your team is feeling and pinpoint areas for improvement—and they’re free with Gusto.

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Access actionable employee insights

With sentiment insights across your company, you can be sure every employee across the board feels valued, heard, empowered, and engaged.

Improve employee retention

Keep your incredible team engaged. Anonymous, real-time pulse surveys allow you to get ahead of issues before you risk losing the people at the heart of your business.

Quickly pinpoint improvement areas

Take the guesswork out of what your team needs. You’ll save time and money when you can make impactful decisions based on feedback from your team.

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Drive culture & engagement

Give your team what they need to succeed.

Happy employees are more engaged. And engaged employees are more productive. Pulse surveys help you measure and improve engagement drivers that lead to a happier, healthier workforce while fostering a valuable, inclusive company culture. Put it all together and you get a wonderful place to work with a serious boost to your bottom line. Talk about a win-win-win.

Retain & attract talent

Keep your top performers—while attracting even more.

Losing your best employees can cost you more than just money. It can put a ding in your reputation that hurts long after their last day. But confidential employee surveys mean you can pinpoint problems and respond before anyone starts dusting off their resume. And happier employees will sing your company’s praises, helping you to reel in the top-tier talent you need to grow your business.

Easy-to-understand analytics

Compelling data and actionable Insights at a glance

Gusto’s beautiful, customized reports help you make swift and informed decisions—rather than sifting through mountains of feedback. You can easily track shifting sentiments in happiness, benefits, management, and more, all right at your fingertips. Plus, we integrate with your favorite performance management tools like Lattice and Culture Amp to take your performance and engagement tracking to the next level.

What is an employee pulse survey?

Employee pulse surveys are shorter, more-frequent check-ins to help you respond to employee issues in real-time. Rather than annual or bi-annual employee feedback, pulse surveys allow you to pinpoint issues and work toward solutions before problems on your team have a chance to develop into larger issues.

What are questions for a pulse survey?

Gusto’s employee pulse checks come with a list of pre-loaded questions that you can tailor to better fit your business. We recommend rotating survey topics each month to keep employee survey participation high and give your employees a chance to sound off on a variety of issues that could impact performance. You can find a list of our employee pulse survey questions here.

How do you conduct an employee pulse survey?

Gusto’s employee pulse check surveys are fully automated and are sent out to your team once a month. You can choose which questions to add, or let us rotate topics for you. Responses from your team are kept anonymous so you can be sure you’re getting honest feedback when you need it most. We also integrate with your favorite performance management tools like Lattice and Culture Amp.

How often should you use employee survey tools?

While Gusto recommends sending pulse surveys monthly, you don’t want to check the pulse any faster than you can implement changes in your business. If your employees feel they’re giving feedback but not seeing results, they could get “survey fatigue” and stop completing the pulse checks altogether. It’s best to start at once a month, and adjust it from there if you need to.

How do you measure employee happiness?

Obviously, we think Gusto’s pulse employee surveys are the best way to do it. But if you’d like to learn more about how and why happiness surveys can help you understand and empower your team while growing your business, check out this article on managing employee happiness and engagement with Gusto.

How do I get my employees to respond to a pulse survey?

We get it. You’ve done the work, created your survey, and you’re ready to act on your insights. Except—your employees haven’t filled it out. This is a common problem as businesses implement an employee engagement pulse survey for the first time. A couple quick tips are to make sure they know it’s confidential, share your own survey results, and share an action plan from the results you do get. This will let your employees know their responses can make a difference and boost survey engagement going forward.