Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most organizations and their employees have undergone significant trials. Consequently, employees are experiencing a spectrum of stressful challenges at home and work, leading to reduced productivity that can adversely impact businesses. To help address these organizational challenges, it’s important for leaders like you to gather feedback to ensure your staff are getting the support and resources they need to succeed.
Feedback and connection with leadership are always useful, as they provide critical insights into the obstacles employees face. In turn, this insight allows leaders to address employee challenges in a targeted manner. However, the pandemic has made the processes of gathering feedback and creating connection more challenging.
For instance, many organizations have moved to remote work in the past year. This means leadership is not interacting with staff in close proximity. And this distance prevents leaders from gaining the same immediate, day-to-day feedback they had when everyone was working on site. Meanwhile, chronically overwhelmed employees may be less likely to speak up and share their needs. They simply may lack the time or energy to identify and share their concerns with managers.
Employee surveys can be a critical step in learning how to better support your team. This information can help you first identify employee pain points and then develop ways to address their needs moving forward.
The Insperity® Workforce Acceleration™ and Workforce Administration™ solutions each offer a comprehensive employee survey to help you gather data about their perceptions of the workplace and the support they receive on the job. If you are a Workforce Acceleration or Workforce Administration customer and would like more information about Insperity’s survey offering, please reach out to your Customer Success Specialist.