If your country or company requires employee representatives such as Worker's councils to approve use of employee surveys, check these tips.

In most cases, these stakeholders just want to ensure employee rights are not violated and their data is used in a responsible way. Here are the most commonly occurring topics and some answers to them.

Purpose

Employee Engagement surveys are run in order to help the organization, its leaders and HR teams understand how the employees experience selected topics in the workplace. This data is then used to make improvements and address issues, resulting in a more productive, collaborative and wellbeing-supporting workplace.

What is measured or tracked?

Teamspective offers a library of questions that can be used. These questions are actively used by companies across 100+ countries in Europe, North America and elsewhere.

List of Teamspective questions are available for admin users in the web app.

You can also view the full list and default questions in this file.

In addition to the question library, it is possible to create custom questions.

Are surveys anonymous? How is that ensured?

Nobody in your organization has access to the individual raw answers to the surveys.

Only way to access the results are via the reports and summaries in Teamspective. Those reports always report results that are aggregated to group level. Open comments are linked to individual users, but the name of the person is never visible in the reports.

See more about anonymity in here.

Is Teamspective GDPR compliant?

Yes, Teamspective has a large number of customers in various EU countries and is fully GDPR compliant. If your organization wants to do a more detailed review, most questions are answered by the materials at https://trust.teamspective.com/