02/15/2024

How to Gather Employee Feedback in Non-threatening Ways

Don't gather voice-of-employee input too aggressively

When it comes to understanding employee engagement and satisfaction, Voice of Employee (VoE) data takes center stage. Capturing the thoughts, emotions and experiences of your workforce can uncover insights that shed light on factors that influence their commitment to productivity. The truth lies in the alignment between company culture and employee expectations. Workloads, retention rates, productivity, innovation and HR efficiency are all crucial elements of a healthy company culture.

According to recent findings by Gartner^®, "Interest in expanding data sources to measure and understand worker activities and sentiment has grown significantly since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic." We believe primarily due to the adoption of working from home, companies needed ways to keep tabs on the work, without being able to see them in the office.

"The overall cost and risk of collecting and processing more data on employee activity and sentiment can outweigh the benefits from the generated insights," warns Gartner. Instead, the research explores human-centric approaches to measurement, with the intent to continuously improve the structures, policies, interventions and support mechanisms put in place to positively impact employee productivity, experience and well-being.

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