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Employee Pulse Survey Tools

Get Real-Time Insights into Employee Engagement

Gather and convert employee feedback into real insights with employee pulse surveys and get ahead of potential problems such as turnover and low morale. Speak to a representative today, call 513-338-0399.

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Make Employee Feedback a Priority

Robust Features for Any Size Business

Employee pulse surveys help promote a positive employee experience by giving HR leaders the tools they need to capture, analyze, and respond to feedback and concerns.

Survey Templates

Get your first survey started quickly using pulse, engagement, and benefits survey templates.

Mobile-Friendly

Increase your survey response rate! Paycor Pulse is mobile-friendly, so employees can provide their feedback on the go from anywhere.

Executive Insights

Easily share pulse survey results, analysis summaries, and dashboards with your leadership team.

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Break-through Insights into Workforce Sentiment

Improve the employee experience with Paycor Pulse. Analyze key factors such as career satisfaction, gather feedback, and create an action plan for positive change.

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Go Beyond Average Employee Engagement

Occasional employee satisfaction surveys are lagging indicators of persistent concerns. Paycor Pulse gives you the ability to regularly gauge exactly what the workforce is feeling at any given moment.

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Know What Matters Most

When your leaders know what matters most to their teams, they can celebrate what’s working and spot trouble brewing before it becomes a problem.

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Make Data-Driven Decisions

When employees trust that every decision the leadership team makes is grounded in reality, and with their input in mind, they feel valued and heard.

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Survey Templates

Start from scratch, or choose from a template to start a pulse, engagement, leadership, or benefits survey.

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Custom Filters

Filter your survey results and drill down into employee demographics or workplace categories.

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Dashboard Insights

Easily understand and share results, analysis summaries, and dashboards

Event-Based Surveys

Create surveys that will automatically trigger based on an event (such as Hire Date, Termination Date, etc.).

Optional Confidential Responses

Send open or confidential surveys where responses are tied to aggregated employee demographic data (department, manager, etc.) for trend analysis.

Technology

Natural Language Processing (NLP) helps measure sentiment by breaking down responses into shorter expressions which allows sorting into categories.

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The Paycor Difference

“Paycor has been instrumental in helping us improve manager development and employee engagement. The data and insights provided by Paycor have allowed us to make meaningful changes and support our managers.”

– Sarah Nix, HR Director


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Achieved an 85% response rate for their surveys, indicating high employee engagement and participate.

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Assessed manager performance and identified opportunity areas.

Pulse Survey FAQs

How often should employee pulse surveys be conducted?

The frequency of pulse surveys should be carefully balanced to maintain engagement while avoiding survey fatigue. While conducting surveys at least once a year is essential to track changes in employee experience, many organizations find that quarterly surveys provide more frequent feedback and help HR identify potential issues before they become significant problems. Paycor Pulse enables managers to regularly gauge employee sentiment and create actionable insights from survey responses, helping leaders pinpoint problem areas and take necessary steps to respond to feedback.

How do employee pulse survey tools improve employee engagement?

Employee pulse survey tools provide timely insights that allow leaders to address employee concerns and foster open communication, while tracking engagement levels to understand what’s driving engagement over time. The tools also empower employees by giving them a voice and the opportunity to influence organizational decisions, helping organizations get ahead of potential problems like turnover and low morale before they become significant issues.

Can employee pulse survey tools be customized to meet specific business needs?

Yes, Paycor Pulse offers customizable survey templates and allows leaders to create and distribute surveys that align with their specific requirements. The platform includes features such as personalized email messages, scheduled surveys, and confidential response options.

How do employee pulse survey tools provide actionable insights?

Employee pulse survey tools allow leaders to seek and evaluate employee viewpoints and develop agile action plans based on responses and concerns. The tools work by quickly gauging key aspects of employee sentiment and providing actionable insights, while data visualization and analytics capabilities make it easier for HR to interpret results.

What survey templates are available?

Pulse is a one-question survey that is a quick check-in, taking a pulse on topics such as communication, leadership, resources, and work environment.

Engagement Survey helps establish a baseline or capture an annual snapshot of your organization.

Benefits Survey offers insights into employee sentiment about your organization’s benefits plan.

Leadership Survey helps establish a baseline or capture a snapshot of manager performance.

Are survey responses confidential?

Before selecting recipients, you have the option to set the survey as confidential or non-confidential. Employees will be informed whether their responses will be confidential or not when they begin the survey.

What open-ended question is asked on the Pulse Survey?

“Please use this space to tell us about your experience at ‘Company’ in as much detail as possible.”

When creating a survey, are the title and instruction fields required?

For Pulse admins to move through the survey creation, both a survey title and introduction/instructions are required to be populated.

Can Pulse Admins export the analysis data to present to their organization’s leaders?

Pulse admins can download/export to PDF and subsequently send the results via email to the leaders within their organization. They can also print the results.

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