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Employee Engagement Survey

A 31-question read on satisfaction, manager support, growth and intent to stay.

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Employee Engagement Survey

Employee Engagement Survey

1. I am satisfied with my current role and responsibilities.

2. I clearly understand what is expected of me at work.

3. My skills and abilities are well utilized in my role.

4. I find my work meaningful and purposeful.

5. I have the resources and tools I need to do my job effectively.

6. My direct manager provides clear and constructive feedback.

7. I feel supported by my manager in achieving my goals.

8. I trust the leadership of this organization.

9. My manager recognises and appreciates my contributions.

10. Leadership communicates the company's vision and strategy effectively.

11. I have access to adequate learning and development opportunities.

12. I see a clear path for career advancement in this organization.

13. My manager actively supports my professional development.

14. I have had meaningful conversations about my career goals in the past year.

15. I feel comfortable sharing my ideas and opinions with my team.

16. There is effective collaboration between teams and departments.

17. I receive the information I need to do my work well.

18. My team works well together to achieve shared goals.

19. I am able to maintain a healthy balance between work and personal life.

20. The organization genuinely cares about employee wellbeing.

21. I feel comfortable taking time off when I need to.

22. My workload is manageable and reasonable.

23. I feel fairly compensated for the work I do.

24. The benefits offered by the organization meet my needs.

25. I feel recognised and valued for my contributions.

26. The organization's reward and recognition programs are fair and transparent.

27. I am proud to work for this organization.

28. The company's values are reflected in everyday decisions and behaviors.

29. I would recommend this organization as a great place to work.

30. I see myself working here for the next two years.

31. What is the one thing we could do to make this a better place to work?

How to run this survey

  • Copy the questions into your survey tool
  • Send it to the team with a clear deadline
  • Act on the lowest scores and close the loop

Works with Google Forms, Microsoft Forms, Typeform or any survey tool.

Questions
31
Time to answer
~8 min
Suggested scale
1 to 5
Best run
Anonymously

The guide

Everything you need to know about the employee engagement survey

What is the Employee Engagement Survey?

The Employee Engagement Survey is a ready-to-launch set of 31 questions that measures how committed, supported, and motivated your people feel. It covers role satisfaction and clarity, asking whether employees are satisfied with their responsibilities and clearly understand what is expected of them. It looks at whether skills are well used, whether work feels meaningful, and whether people have the resources and tools to do the job effectively. It also examines the manager relationship and trust in leadership. Run it when you want a comprehensive read on engagement drivers across the organization, whether as an annual baseline or to check the impact of recent changes.

Why run an Employee Engagement Survey

Engagement shapes performance, retention, and everyday effort, but it is hard to manage without measurement. This 31-question survey turns it into clear signals you can act on. Responses show whether people find their work meaningful, whether they have the resources and tools they need, whether managers give clear and constructive feedback, and whether employees trust leadership. Those insights inform decisions about workload, role design, manager support, and communication. By covering the main drivers of engagement in one survey, it helps you see which levers to pull first and gives you a baseline to measure progress against over time.

What this Employee Engagement Survey covers

The roughly 31 questions group into a few themes. Role and clarity includes satisfaction with current role and responsibilities and clearly understanding what is expected at work. Contribution and meaning covers whether skills and abilities are well utilized and whether work feels meaningful and purposeful. Enablement asks whether people have the resources and tools they need to do the job effectively. Management support includes whether the direct manager provides clear and constructive feedback and whether employees feel supported in achieving their goals. Trust in leadership captures confidence in the organization's leaders. Together these themes cover the core drivers that shape how engaged people feel day to day.

How to use this free template

Copy or download the full set of 31 questions and load them into a survey tool you already use, such as Google Forms, Typeform, or an internal HR platform. No signup is required. Keep responses anonymous so employees feel safe being candid about managers and leadership. Set a clear closing date and communicate how results will be used, which lifts both response rates and trust. When responses are in, review scores by theme and by team so you can target the specific engagement drivers that need the most attention.

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FAQ

Questions about the employee engagement survey

The template includes about 31 questions covering role clarity, meaningful work, enablement, manager support, and trust in leadership. That length gives a thorough baseline across the main engagement drivers. If you want lighter, more frequent measurement between full runs, you can select a shorter subset of the most important items and keep the rest for your annual survey.

A five-point agreement scale from strongly disagree to strongly agree works well for these statements, such as agreeing that your manager provides clear and constructive feedback. Keep the scale consistent across all 31 questions so themes are comparable. Some teams add an optional open comment field so employees can explain their ratings and suggest specific improvements.

Yes. Several questions ask about the direct manager and trust in leadership, and people answer these more honestly when they know responses cannot be traced back to them. Use an anonymous setup with no names, and be careful reporting results for very small teams where individuals could be identified. Anonymity leads to more reliable, actionable engagement data.

A full engagement survey of this size is commonly run once or twice a year, giving enough time for changes to take effect between measurements. Many organizations complement it with shorter pulse surveys throughout the year on specific themes. Keeping the questions and scale consistent lets you track whether engagement is improving over successive runs.

Start by reviewing scores by theme to see whether the weak points are role clarity, enablement, manager support, or trust in leadership. Then look at differences between teams. Share the findings openly, pick a small number of priorities, and assign clear owners. Acting visibly on results and reporting back builds trust and improves participation in the next survey.

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