Employee Engagement Survey Template

Want to learn what your employees really think?

Our employee feedback survey template goes beyond surface-level engagement to gather deep insights about workplace culture and manager-employee relationships. By combining carefully crafted questions about company culture, manager effectiveness, and workplace satisfaction with AI follow-up questions, we help you dig into real, specific situations driving employee engagement.

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What sets this employee engagement survey apart? When an employee shares that they have a challenging relationship with their manager, Aftercare can dig deeper to understand the exact situation that made them feel that way and specific pain points - whether it's communication style, feedback frequency, or career development support. Similarly, when employees report positive experiences, the AI helps guide respondents to elaborate on successful management practices that can be replicated across your organization.

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Here's where we save you valuable analysis time: Aftercare will automatically summarize open-ended responses from your entire team, and categorize them into buckets, so you can see what most employees care about at a glance. These organized insights help you quickly identify patterns and prioritize the changes that will have the biggest impact on employee satisfaction.

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Our employee feedback template helps you:

Understand authentic employee sentiment about company culture
Identify what makes great managers successful
Spot cultural and people management issues before they impact retention
Uncover specific suggestions for workplace improvements

Aftercare's template is ready to use immediately and works seamlessly on any device, making it convenient for employees to share their thoughts whether they're at their desk or on the go.

Frequently asked questions

What makes the manager-employee relationship insights unique in this template?

Unlike standard surveys that ask every employee the same list of questions, our AI adapts its questions based on relationship quality. For positive relationships, it identifies specific management practices that create success. For challenging relationships, it explores particular areas where support is needed. This approach meets respondents with relevant questions and helps create a playbook of effective management strategies while identifying specific areas for management training and development.

How can we use this template to improve company culture and employee satisfaction?

The template excels at uncovering broad employee sentiment about the company as well as specific aspects of company culture that matter most to employees. Through targeted questions and AI-powered follow-ups, you'll learn exactly what employees value about your culture and what needs improvement. The AI also groups similar feedback points together, helping you identify which aspects of your culture resonate most strongly and which areas might be causing friction or disengagement.

How can leadership teams best use the insights from this survey?

Aftercare will categorize feedback from this survey template, allowing you to quickly see trends in employee sentiment. You can also easily dig into specific responses for specific details. You'll receive clear insights about management effectiveness, culture health, and employee engagement. For example, you might learn that while 70% of employees feel supported by their managers, there's a clear desire for more structured career development conversations, which can be taken to the next leadership meeting to improve these points. These organized insights help leadership teams prioritize initiatives and measure their impact over time.

Can using this survey template help diagnose employee turnover issues?

Yes, by identifying early warning signs of disengagement. When employees provide feedback about their likelihood to recommend the company as a workplace, our AI explores the specific factors influencing their response. This might reveal that seemingly minor issues, like lack of recognition or limited cross-team collaboration, are actually major drivers of turnover risk. This early insight allows you to address concerns before they lead to resignations.

How did we design this employee engagement template?

This employee engagement survey template was born from real-world experience and frustration with the limitations of traditional surveys. As Y Combinator-backed founders, the Aftercare team has run hundreds of surveys across different industries and consistently saw the same problem: standard surveys couldn't dig deeper when respondents gave interesting or unexpected answers. We tested and refined this template through extensive real-world use, learning from each iteration. Our experience working with businesses of all sizes (and experiencing surveys from many companies ourselves) helped us understand exactly what factors to dig into. The result is a survey template that uses AI to actively uncover the deeper employee engagement insights that traditional surveys miss. It's the survey we always wished we had – and now it's here to help your business retain and develop exceptional talent.