In today’s world, it is essential to stay on top of how your staff feels about the company they work for, their employer, the workplace, its policies, and their fellow employees. Utilizing employee survey vendors is a valuable method of research, allowing employees to be open and honest about their feelings. So are employee exit interviews.
Implementing employee surveys internally can be overwhelming and intimidating. Using an outside, independent company that specializes in employee satisfaction and longevity allows your employees to be open about their feelings while reducing your company’s employee turnover. Companies that help small companies to large corporations reduce employee turnover while increasing employee satisfaction, such as Work Institute, will help.
Trust From Your Employees
It is rare for an employee of any company to truly trust that company, its owner(s), HR department, or even their supervisor, making them less likely to be completely honest about their feelings.
By using an outside employee survey vendor, your employees can keep a sense of unanimity. This allows them the freedom to be honest without fear of confrontation from above about their concerns and feelings. By using an outsource vendor, you will receive more honest results from employee surveys.
Freedom for Current Employees
Outsourcing exit interviews and employee surveys also allow more time for the HR department to work on other pressing issues. Outsourcing to a specialized vendor also provides your HR team with more insight, allowing them to interpret the data gathered and decide how that data can be best used for the company to keep employee happiness and employee retention.
Quantitative Results
Specialists in employee surveys not only prepare their surveys based on experience but first and continually perform extensive research in the field providing your HR team with quantitative results and statistics for your HR department to use.
The results of surveys answered honestly will give you advance warning as to how many employees may be intending to leave and, importantly, why. This can help you understand and address issues and policies of concern in specific departments and companywide while providing you with a baseline for future use.
Through this data, your HR team will be able to prioritize decisions and address what is most important for your company. In addition, the data found can help your company follow any local, state, or federal regulations.
A Third-Party Can Have More of a Focus
A company that specializes in employee retention, such as Work Institute, can hone in on what departments may be experiencing unhappy employee issues rather than the company as a whole. We often suggest working on one department or group of related departments at a time, depending upon the size of the company, for a more focused approach.
A Return on Investment
Let’s face it. Employee turnover is expensive. If using an outside employee survey vendor as well as outsourcing exit interviews can save thousands of dollars for the company overall, that outside vendor is worth the expense. Utilizing an outside firm can reduce employee turnover by up to 20 percent while helping you keep happier employees while reducing the need for training. All of this amounts to huge financial savings and a decrease in many headaches.
Employee Surveys With Proficiency
Utilizing an outside vendor to help ensure employee happiness and productivity, such as Work Institute, is well worth the investment.
By using an employee survey vendor and outsourcing your exit interviews, you receive the years of experience of that firm and the ability of that experience while looking for your best practical solutions.
To learn more, do not hesitate to contact Work Institute to discuss your needs and how we can help.
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