Employee Engagement Survey

The engagement survey that drives action

Measure what drives engagement, see exactly where to act, and hand every manager a plan. Not just another score that lands in a deck and goes nowhere.

★★★★★ 4.7/5 on G2
SOC 2 Type II ISO 27001 GDPR
Engagement by driverBy team
Recog.Leader.GrowthSales6.47.95.6Ops4.85.76.6Support5.56.87.4Remote5.54.66.1
Recommended action
Start a peer-recognition program · OpsRecognition is your lowest driver, 3 sitesNew
Engagement programmes that act, not just measure
YahooEmiratesDP WorldAujan Coca-ColaG&J PepsiAshleyBausch HealthRobertshawEconofoods

Build a survey your people trust

Start from a science-backed driver model, a question bank and 50+ templates built by our People Science team, or write your own. Brand it as yours, then launch in four steps. The build is the easy part; what you do after is the rest of this page.

1
Pick your driversA research-backed engagement framework, or your own questions.
2
Make it yoursYour logo, tone and languages. Preview it as an employee.
3
Choose the audienceSegment by any field and route each to the right channel.
4
Schedule and launchReminders to non-respondents, then send. Live in days.
See how Aujan launched in 7 days
Engagement drivers
Recognition
Leadership
Growth & development
Wellbeing
Brand & preview
Acme Co.

I feel recognised for the work I do.

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Audience & channels
SalesEmail & SSO
OpsWhatsApp & SMS
SupportEmail & SSO
RemoteSlack & Email
Schedule & launch
Launch · Mon 9:00
Reminder · Wed 8:00 non-respondents
Close · Fri 17:00
🚀 Launch survey
Aujan Coca-Cola7 daystime to launchAujan Coca-Cola, to 2,000 staff in 5 languages

In every employee's own language

Surveys auto-translate into 100+ languages, detected per employee, so everyone answers naturally and you read the whole workforce in one place. No translation agency, no separate tool.

100+

languages, ready out of the box and detected per employee.

See how Cerence reached 30+ languages
Auto-translated · per employee
Hello

How supported did you feel by your manager this week?

Delivered in each employee's own language
Cerence AI30+languagesCerence AI, 86% participation across 15+ countries

On the channel they already use

A score only means something if everyone is counted, frontline and deskless teams included. Reach them where they actually are, so no one is left out, and reminders chase only the people who have not answered yet.

Email, SSO, WhatsApp, SMS, QR, kiosk, Teams and Slack, from one survey. True anonymity on every channel keeps the answers honest.

See how Robertshaw reached a frontline workforce
Delivered via WhatsApp
WhatsApp

How supported did you feel by your manager this week?

Reaching ·
Robertshaw80%frontlineRobertshaw, 4,500+ reached on QR, kiosk and email

Most engagement surveys end in a slide deck,
but yours ends in a manager action plan.

Engagement reporting leaders actually use

Board-ready scores, driver heatmaps and segment cuts, benchmarked against your industry.

View byLocationTeamManagerTenure
LINKBANK90%participationLINKBANK, 50+ managers with team-level visibility

For the full analytics deep-dive, see people analytics & metrics.

See how LINKBANK equipped 50+ managers

Turn results into change

This is where most engagement surveys stall. CultureMonkey hands every manager a prioritised action plan and closes the loop.

Give every manager a plan

When the survey closes, our People Science team turns results into a prioritised action plan you assign to managers and track to done. Cascading dashboards push each leader their own slice, with role-based access built in.

Top-cited strength on G2Our customer-success partnership comes up again and again in reviews: "an engagement partner, not a tool."

For the full close-the-loop workflow, see acting on feedback.

Q2 EngagementClosed
Action plan · assigned to managers
Action recommendation: Focus on recognition in Ops, three sites.
Monthly recognition ritual · OpsOwner · Ops LeadIn Progress
Manager 1:1 guidance · BerlinOwner · People PartnerOpen

Why buy and migrate to a whole HCM suite
when all you need is an engagement survey?

See pricing
Continuous listening

Pulse, lifecycle and eNPS, built to work together

Your engagement survey is the anchor. Pair it with lighter, more frequent signals and lifecycle moments, each its own product on one platform.

Always listening · pulse every 2 weeks
Pulse surveys

Know how people feel, always

Short, frequent check-ins that track sentiment between your annual cycles. Run them weekly, every two weeks or monthly on a cadence you set, and keep each one to a single question so fatigue stays low.

The trend moves in near real time, so you catch issues while they are still small.

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Onboard30 days60 days90 daysGrowthExitFrom onboarding to exit
Lifecycle surveys

Listen at every milestone

Well-timed surveys that fire automatically at every milestone, from a new hire's first week through 30, 60 and 90 days, growth, anniversaries and exit.

You hear what each moment actually feels like, segment the results by tenure or role, and act before good people quietly disengage.

Explore lifecycle
+42ENPS
Promoters 58%Passives 26%Detractors 16%
Your team's loyalty score
eNPS surveys

Measure loyalty in one question

One question, scored from minus 100 to plus 100 and tracked over time. See the promoter, passive and detractor split at a glance, then slice it by team, manager or location to find where loyalty is slipping.

Anonymous by default, so the answers stay honest.

Explore eNPS

Switching to CultureMonkey

Most teams arrive from a DIY spreadsheet that gives scores but no action, or a premium suite that bundles engagement into a bigger purchase. Here is the honest trade-off.

CriteriaDIY (Surveys, Forms)Premium / performance suiteCultureMonkey
Science-backed engagement drivers✕✓✓
Driver heatmaps & industry benchmarks✕✓✓
Manager action plans & close-the-loop✕Partial✓
AI agent in-platform and in Slack✕Partial✓ AskCooper
Reach for frontline & deskless (WhatsApp/SMS/QR)Partial (link only)✕✓
Dedicated Solutions Manager included✕Often paid add-on✓ Included
No performance-suite purchase required✓✕✓
Best forOne-off, ad-hoc surveysBuyers standardising on one HCM suiteTeams that want engagement depth, easy, and acted on

Comparing a specific tool? See vs Culture Amp, vs Peakon and vs Qualtrics.

Hear it from the teams running it

Esther Geldenhuys, Econofoods
“
CultureMonkey's support during our first company engagement survey was phenomenal. With omni-channel reminders through WhatsApp and text, we reached nearly 80% participation.
Esther GeldenhuysPeople Operations · Econofoods
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Heather Kane, Robertshaw
“
The problem CultureMonkey solves is getting to a mostly frontline workforce in nine different languages. It makes it really easy, so we spend our time on the output that actually matters.
Heather KaneChange Management & Employee Engagement Lead · Robertshaw
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Susan Gardner, Aujan Coca-Cola
“
In just seven days, CultureMonkey designed and launched our survey to 2,000 employees across multiple geographies and in five languages, a feat that would normally take 45 days.
Susan GardnerCHRO · Aujan Coca-Cola
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Frequently asked questions

Navigate by topic; answers stay in one panel.

Pricing

How much does an employee engagement survey cost, and how is it priced?+
Pricing is per employee per year and scales with headcount, so a lean team and a global enterprise each pay only for what they use. Start with a single survey or one business unit to prove ROI before rolling out wider, and multi-year deals lock the per-employee rate. Book a demo for a quote against your exact headcount.
Is there a free trial, and how do we get started?+
There is no self-serve free trial. Instead you can start with one survey or a single business unit to prove ROI before a wider rollout, guided by a dedicated Solutions Manager who builds it with you. Book a demo and we will scope the rollout, map your drivers and quote against your exact headcount, in days, not months.

Product

How fast can we launch an engagement survey, and what support do we get?+
Lean teams launch in days, not months, from a science-backed template and your own employee-data file. Every account is paired with a dedicated Solutions Manager, not a ticket queue, who builds the rollout, drives participation and delivers segmented read-outs. Larger programmes get file-based ingestion or custom middleware.
How often should we run employee engagement surveys?+
Most teams run a full engagement survey once or twice a year and add shorter pulse surveys in between to track sentiment continuously. CultureMonkey supports both on one platform, so you set the cadence that fits, weekly, monthly or annual, and watch trends move cycle to cycle instead of waiting a year for one snapshot.
Can we customise the survey with our own questions and branding?+
Yes. Start from a science-backed driver model and a question bank built by our People Science team, or write your own questions and themes. Brand the survey with your logo, tone and languages, and preview it exactly as an employee will see it before launch, so every survey feels like it came from you, not a vendor template.
Can managers see and act on their own team's results?+
Yes. Cascading dashboards push each manager their own team's results, with role-based access so a leader only ever sees their own slice. They get the drivers behind the score, a prioritised action plan to assign and track to done, and small teams roll up under an anonymity threshold so no individual is ever identifiable.
What does the AI do on an employee engagement survey?+
AskCooper, our AI agent, lets you ask plain-language questions about your results, compare surveys and surface hotspots in seconds, both in-platform and inside Slack. On the action side it recommends next-best steps and drafts manager guidance, and it respects role-based access, so a manager only ever sees their own team's data.
Can we benchmark our engagement scores against the industry?+
Yes. Every driver, eNPS and engagement score can be compared against internal cuts like site, team, manager or tenure, and against external industry, region and company-size benchmarks, so a number always has context. The heatmap shades each cell against the benchmark, so a leader instantly sees where they sit versus peers.

Reach

How do you keep employee survey participation high?+
Reach matters more than reminders. Invites go out over email, SSO, WhatsApp, SMS, QR code and Slack, so desk and frontline staff alike respond on the channel they already use every day, in 100+ languages. Reminders fire only to non-respondents, and each site or manager sees their own live participation rate to chase it locally.
Can we run the engagement survey in multiple languages?+
Yes. Surveys run in 100+ languages, auto-detected per employee, so each person answers in their own language and you report on the whole workforce in one place. It works across email, SSO, WhatsApp, SMS, QR and kiosk, so global and frontline teams are covered without a separate tool or a translation agency on your side.

Security

Is the survey anonymous, and how do you protect small teams?+
Yes. Individual responses are never tied to a person in reporting. Every team and demographic cut applies a configurable minimum-respondent threshold, so a manager with only a handful of reports sees a rolled-up view, never an identifiable one. Anonymity is enforced everywhere results are sliced, including dashboards and heatmaps.
Where is our data hosted, and is the platform secure?+
CultureMonkey is SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 certified and GDPR compliant, with regional data residency and EU or US hosting options for teams with location requirements. Access is role-based and anonymity thresholds are enforced in the product, not just promised in a contract. We will work through your security questionnaire.
Do you integrate with our HRIS and SSO?+
Yes. CultureMonkey syncs employee and org data with major HRIS platforms including Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, UKG, ADP and Paycom, and supports SSO for single-click access. You can also launch from a data file and add the live HRIS sync later, which helps when systems are still fragmented after a merger or acquisition.

Switching

How is an engagement survey different from a performance management tool?+
An engagement survey measures how your people feel, the drivers of motivation, belonging and retention, and turns that into an action plan. A performance suite manages individual output through reviews, goals and pay. CultureMonkey gives you engagement depth without the performance-suite lock-in or a whole HCM purchase.
What happens to our historic engagement data if we switch tools?+
You can bring prior results in so trends do not reset to zero on day one, and your Solutions Manager maps your existing drivers and questions to keep continuity. Most teams switch because their old tool gave them scores but no path to action, so the migration is scoped during onboarding to keep history without the old dashboards.

See your engagement survey drive action

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★★★★★ 4.7/5 on G2SOC 2 · ISO 27001 · GDPR