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Employee Wellbeing Survey
Benchmark the state of employee wellbeing in your organisation and understand exactly what your staff need with our expert-developed employee needs analysis
The Employee Wellbeing Survey
The Employee Wellbeing Survey is custom built here at New Leaf Health to help you understand the exact wellbeing issues affecting your team, so that you can formulate an effective employee wellbeing strategy in response.
It’s counter-productive to start sanctioning wellbeing services without fully understanding what their impact will be on your employees – and if they’re needed at all.
Knowing is half the battle, as they say. And that’s the benefit of our Employee Wellbeing Survey.
“Our Employee Wellbeing Survey is a workplace needs analysis tool designed to help employers understand what their employees actually want from a wellbeing programme. More than just a simple survey, this is a bespoke questionnaire developed using NHS and NICE guidelines, as well as input from our actual clients who have successful wellbeing programmes.
With robust reporting, as well as New Leaf’s 30+ years of insight and experience, this tool helps you bring an evidence-based approach to your employee wellbeing programme.”
Andy Lee-O’Neil – Director at New Leaf Health
Why use an Employee Wellbeing Survey?
Unless you talk to every employee on a daily basis, it’s unlikely you’ll know how they’re doing in general. Which is why a formalised needs analysis survey like this one is important.
Plus, according to the CIPD’s annual Health and Wellbeing at Work Report:
- Only around 50% of employees feel their organisation supports mental health.
- A sizeable minority (around 30%) of staff report poor health.
- Less than half of staff said that work has a positive impact on their mental health, and only a third said it has a positive impact on physical health.
If your employees aren’t feeling supported by your workplace, they aren’t working at their best. And, as research shows, spending money on wellbeing is worth it from a productivity point of view – but you need to make sure you’re spending the money on the right things, not just anything.
How does the Employee Wellbeing Survey Work?
Step One
Initially, we’ll have an online meeting with you or your team to determine if the employee wellbeing survey is required, along with your desired outcomes, timings, and any specific questions you’d like to ask.
Step Two
We then run the Employee Wellbeing Survey so that staff can respond anonymously during a window of time (usually up to a week).
Step Three
We will then produce an anonymised report, helping determine trends in your workplace, along with insightful information from long-form answers, too.
Step Four
Finally, we’ll arrange a short consultation to talk through the results, and to help you identify areas of wellbeing that need to be addressed.
What's Covered in the Employee Needs Analysis?
We begin the needs analysis with key demographic information about your employees, including:
- Age range
- Gender
- Department
- Working location
The answers are as generalised as possible to ensure anonymity for respondents. The questions can also be customised based on your business. For example, you can change the departments or working locations.
For physical wellbeing, we look at key information relating to health and habits, including:
- Physical activity self-evaluation
- Levels of activity
- Activity-limiting health problems
- Behaviours around drinking alcohol, smoking, and diet
These questions are based on key NHS and government guidelines to ensure they’re easy to answer and provide data that can be clearly interpreted.
Here, we look at mental wellbeing both at home and in the workplace:
- Stress and pressure at home and in work
- Feelings of worthwhile
- Recent levels of anxiety and happiness
We don’t look at specific mental health conditions, as this goes beyond the scope of the needs analysis and would potentially affect respondent anonymity.
Social wellbeing looks at how connected a person feels both at home and in the workplace, including:
- Social connections in work
- Social connections outside of work
- How the work environment impacts your social wellbeing
This section is a slightly lighter touch than the previous two, however, it still provides useful data, particularly around working environments, and can highlight disparities between working from home and working in an office, for example.
This section covers financial wellbeing, without going into salary and benefits, and includes:
- Financial wellbeing self-evaluation
- Worries around personal finance
- Self-evaluation of knowledge around general personal finance
We clearly outline to respondents that the scope of this section is not around benefits and compensation, but rather around existing knowledge and ongoing personal concerns, to help provide awareness and support, if required.
Finally, we look at what employees actually want out of a wellbeing programme in their workplace, asking questions around:
- Current wellbeing strategy
- Feelings around the business’ wellbeing priorities
- What they understand to be currently available to them
- What they would like to be offered to them
These questions can be customised based on your existing offering to evaluate how successfully you are communicating your initiatives to staff. Additionally, this includes an open-ended question for respondents to provide further comments or suggestions.
Example Questions from an Employee Wellbeing Survey
Below, we’ve included a couple of examples of questions included in each section to give you an idea of the scope of the Employee Wellbeing Survey.
Demographic Question Examples
- What is your age? [Multiple choice, answers in ranges]
- Which department do you work in? [Customised i.e. Sales, Admin, HR, Marketing etc.]
- Where do you work? [Customised i.e. Office/Onsite, Home Worker, Hybrid, Mobile Worker]
Physical Wellbeing Question Examples
- Overall, how would you rate your own physical wellbeing? [Scale – Very Poor to Excellent]
- Is your physical health limited due to health problems, disability, or ageing? [Yes, A Little, No]
- On average, how many days do you exercise each week? [Rarely, or scale of 1 – 7]
Mental Wellbeing Question Examples
- How would you rate the levels of stress you experience outside of work? [Scale – Very Low to Very High]
- To what extent do you feel that things you do in life are worthwhile? [Scale – Not to Very]
- Overall, how happy did you feel yesterday? [Scale – Not Happy to Very Happy]
Social Wellbeing Question Examples
- How often do you feel socially connected to people at work? [Scale – Not at All to All the Time]
- Does your working environment affect your score? How? [Open ended text answer]
Financial Wellbeing Question Examples
- How would you rate your financial wellbeing? [Scale – Very Poor to Very Strong]
- How would you rate your financial knowledge? [Scale – No Knowledge to Lots of Knowledge]
Wellbeing at Work Question Examples
- How proactive is your employer around wellbeing? [Scale – Not At All to Very Proactive]
- What wellbeing activities would you like to have available? [Matrix of choices and level of interest]
Why Work with New Leaf Health?
At New Leaf Health, we understand that every business requires a unique approach. With all of our services, we work with you to understand the specific challenges your organisation faces, and what your people truly need. This is no different with our employee wellbeing survey. We create bespoke surveys tailored to your workforce and the kind of insights you want to gain.
How do we know what works? We’ve been working with many large private organisations, as well as fulfilling several government and NHS programmes for over 30 years. Working with companies of all sizes has helped us understand the nuances of employee wellbeing across different sectors, structures, and working environments.
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Employee Wellbeing Survey Information
Can Survey Questions be Customised?
Absolutely!
Our staff wellbeing survey has been developed using a number of different resources, to provide a comprehensive overview of wellbeing in your business.
With that in mind, we don’t recommend completely overhauling the survey, however, we encourage adding in some organisation-specific questions. This ensures that the information you obtain will be useful to you.
Who is this Survey Suitable for?
The Employee Wellbeing Survey is ideal for businesses of any size or sector.
The unique benefit of our survey is that it can be customised to your requirements. For a smaller business where departments may only be one or two people, for example, using departments as a demographic breakdown may not be suitable. If that’s the case, we just take it out!
Our survey works great ‘out of the box’, but we’ll always have a discussion with you prior to deployment to make sure you’ll get the information you need.
How do you Run the Employee Wellbeing Survey?
We host the survey online using Microsoft Forms – it’s a reliable, flexible service that’s easy to use.
Your staff won’t need to sign in to complete the survey – it’s all anonymous. We’ll provide you with a link to the survey that you can distribute, whether that’s to work emails, personal emails, or even displayed around the workplace using a QR code – we can help with that last one, too!
Is the Survey GDPR-Compliant?
Yes, 100%.
All of the data from the survey is collected and stored anonymously, so not only can we not see who’s answered a question in a certain way, but neither will you be able to, either.
This acts as another layer of trust for survey participants, as they know that they can be fully open and honest in their responses, so you’ll be getting accurate data out of the other end.
Additionally, because we collect some basic demographic data from respondents, we don’t give you access to the data until responses have hit a minimum threshold, to ensure true anonymity.
Could I Run the Survey Myself?
If you’ve read all of the information above, you may be wondering why you couldn’t just create and run the survey yourself. And you could, however, you miss out on three key benefits:
- New Leaf’s Expertise:Â We’ve been running workplace wellbeing programmes since 1996. We work with a variety of businesses all over the UK, so we know what information will be important to you, and how to get it.
- Using a Wellbeing Provider:Â By running the survey with New Leaf, you’re showing your staff that you’re serious about wellbeing by using a workplace wellbeing provider. This way, you’re more likely to receive truly honest responses, as your staff may feel more comfortable providing information to an external, unbiased organisation.
- Our Support: Once you’ve got the survey responses, what do you do with the information? We run organisations’ wellbeing programmes on a daily basis, so we know how to address key areas of weakness and strength that are identified in your survey results. We’re not going to sell you something you don’t want or need – we’re just going to give you the best advice, and if you want to use our service based on that, we’re here to help!
How do you Measure Wellbeing at Work?
An employee wellbeing survey is an effective way to collect data on how staff are feeling across a range of physical, mental, and emotional health indicators. Here are some benefits of measuring wellbeing at work:
- Identifies areas of concern: Helps highlight issues affecting staff health, morale, or productivity that may not be visible to management.
- Improves employee retention: Understanding and addressing wellbeing concerns can reduce staff turnover.
- Gives employees a voice: Shows staff that their opinions are valued and considered, which can boost engagement and trust.
- Track progress over time: You can deliver an employee wellbeing survey annually to measure improvement and adapt your wellbeing strategy.
What other Wellbeing Services do you Offer?
The findings from your employee engagement survey could identify common wellbeing challenges in your workforce. If this is the case, we can help you act on those results with targeted services. For example, if your staff are struggling with mental health issues, we offer a range of mental health services to to support your team, including mental health awareness training, a workplace stress and resilience course, and suicide first aid training.
And if the results point to physical health concerns, health checks for employees reveal key numbers like blood pressure and body composition in minutes.