lab notes ... the Surveylab blog
Questions we think about, what we've learnt & stories we can share
29 October 2025
Have you ever wondered what's the impact on employees when a survey runs, and then nothing (appears to) happen?
21 October 2025
13 October 2025
Is there a better time to run your survey? Should you delay it because ... ? Does it matter if we change the time of year when we run the survey?
29 May 2025
There are 'shades of grey' when it comes to team engagement. There's more than just engaged or disengaged. We have measured more than 350 teams to learn more.
6 May 2025
Too often, the survey launches and for some parts of the organisation all our efforts promoting the employee voice falls on deaf ears. Employees don't engage with the survey. Why is that?
30 April 2025
It is surprising how many forms and surveys don't do this ...
24 March 2025
If you were to leave or quit your job tomorrow, what would your main reason(s) be?
Better pay... Workload or stress... To develop or pursue your career... For some their answer is "I wouldn't". We share some more findings from the UK Workplace Study.
11 February 2025
If you could focus just one thing to improve employee engagement in your organisation, what should the focus be? While all the drivers that contribute to good employee experience are inter-related, we can explore which components have a greater positive impact. We can use the findings to help inform plans […]
16 December 2024
It might seem that way right now, but take a step back and see how far we’ve come. Twelve years ago, we ran our first UK Workplace Study. We ran the study again the following year and for a third time in 2015, and largely the results were disappointing. The […]
16 October 2024
One of our clients feared losing staff to Lidl because the supermarket chain offered slightly higher pay. Could the employee survey find out what was really going on? What we discovered was a relief! Yes, pay mattered, but it wasn’t in the top reasons why people would leave. Far more […]
30 September 2024
Our free survey tool offers a quick and easy way to test out employee voice in your organisation, and learn (or confirm) what employee sentiment about the workplace looks like.
26 September 2024
Very often, at the end of an employee survey, we end up with a big, big phonebook style listing of all our results. And this is great, but we have to make sense of it all.
