COVID-19: Survey Your Employees

Every organization shall survey employees to enhance employee trust, reduce employee stress, and build a stronger workplace culture.

Since the last few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted companies around the world. Covid-19 has been a crash course in resilience, forcing us to learn how to be effective at telecommuting while avoiding burnout, engaging with remote workers and much more.

Why Survey Employees?

There is a high likelihood that, majority of your employees have elevated levels of stress due to concern for their & their loved ones’ health, global impacts on the economy, and job security. Gathering feedback on employee wellbeing during a time of uncertainty is a fantastic symbol of kindness and demonstrates employees that their personal experiences are a priority.

Here are the two key reasons and benefits of employee surveys.

To Reinforce an intention of care: When you survey employees during tough times, you are showing them that you are committed to their wellbeing and you are listening.

To get crucial insight into how to best support employees: During times when employees are experiencing fear, anxiety and uncertainty, they may feel least equipped to vocalize their needs and experience with the organization. However, employees tend to provide an honest and direct response to questions in a confidential employee survey.

What Survey Questions to Ask?

The COVID-19 survey questions should help you understand your employees’ pulse and sentiment in various areas. The surveys and questions should be relevant for all employees - regardless of whether they are working remote, on the front line or returned/returning to the workplace.

SurveyVista team has created the following survey templates to get a pulse of your employees.

You can use SurveyVista’s app on Salesforce AppExchange to send anonymous surveys to your employees for confidentially collecting the survey data.

What to do with Survey Results?

In order to reinforce that you care your employees’ wellbeing, it’s critical that you:

  • Share the survey results with your employees
  • Take action on the results

Sharing the survey results, what you learned from the survey and what actions you’re taking as a result of the survey helps build the kind of trust and credibility with your employees.

Summary

In the current Covid-19 uncertain time, survey your organization employees to enhance employee trust, reduce employee stress, and build a stronger workplace culture.

“SurveyVista : 100% Native Surveys, Forms, Quizzes, Checklists, & Assessments” app on Salesforce AppExchange along with SurveyVista’s Covid-19 Survey Templates can help you quickly build your Covid-19 employee wellbeing survey program.