Response rate matters

Why response rate matters more than score

Michael Carden Engagement Leave a Comment

Pop quiz! What’s going to be more useful to you in the long run: a high engagement survey score with a low response rate, or a low engagement score with a high response rate? High engagement is good, right? Low is bad? You want to know if you have a highly engaged workforce, so you need as many survey responses as you can get. Ideally 100%. Definitely more than the 10-15% you can expect from surveying complete strangers. Response rate matters. Surveys are an average of opinions… of those who bother responding When do you leave a hotel review online? …

EX18 Awards NZ

EX18: NZ’s First EVER Employee Experience Awards

Karen Rayner Employee experience, Joyous Labs 1 Comment

Do your people love what they do and do what they love?  Are you keen to showcase and celebrate what an awesome workplace you are?  If so, read on! The awesome guys at Humankind will be launching New Zealand’s first ever Employee Experience Awards in 2018 in partnership with Joyous. The EX18 Awards, which celebrate organisations throughout New Zealand who are leading the way delivering exceptional experiences to their people and therefore known as the best employers in the country, will be launching 3rd June, with the overall winners announced 8th November. Founder of Humankind, Samantha Gadd, is passionate about …

Employee experience 101

Employee Experience 101

Karen Rayner Employee experience Leave a Comment

Employee experience is kind of a big deal, and we all know it. It might not be the future of HR (though it probably is), but it’s something everyone needs to pay attention to. And while it might sound like the sort of thing that involves catered breakfasts and foosball tables, it’s significantly more complex. So, for the uninitiated, what exactly is employee experience? And what isn’t it? Employee experience defined There’s no single universally accepted definition of employee experience, but everyone’s on pretty much the same page. Basically everything about work that makes employees think or act a certain …