An employee satisfaction survey measures how a whole team feels about the work rather than how one person is doing. It runs on a cycle, quarterly or twice a year, and asks the same questions each time, because the value is in the movement between rounds and not in any single round.
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The design problem is candour. People answer honestly when the survey is genuinely anonymous, short enough to finish in a coffee break, and followed by something visible happening. Ask for a name, or ask thirty questions, and you measure who is willing to fill in surveys rather than how the team feels.
A starting point, not a rulebook: every question below is a real Questionful question type, and all of them are editable once the form is in your account.
| Question | Question type |
|---|---|
| How satisfied are you with your job overall? 1 to 5, labelled at both ends, the one number you track across rounds | Linear scale |
| How likely are you to still be here in a year? 0 to 10 | Linear scale |
| How much do you agree with each statement? Workload is manageable, expectations are clear, I have the tools I need, my work is recognised | Rating grid |
| How would you rate your working relationship with your manager? Keep manager questions in one section so they can be reported separately | Linear scale |
| Which area needs the most attention? Workload, tools, communication, progression, pay, working pattern. This is the question the rest of the survey branches on | Dropdown |
| What would make the biggest difference to that area? One open question per branch, so the answer is specific | Paragraph |
| What should we keep doing? The question that stops the survey reading as a complaint box | Paragraph |
| Which team are you in? Optional, and only worth asking if teams are big enough that an answer stays anonymous | Dropdown |
Leave out every identifying question, or make each one optional. Questionful never requires a respondent account, so a link survey is anonymous unless you ask who someone is. Beware the combination. Team, tenure and role together can identify a person on a small team even when no name is collected.
A rating grid asks several statements against one scale in a single question, which is far quicker to answer than eight separate ones and keeps the wording identical between rounds.
Ask which area needs attention as a dropdown or multiple choice and route each option to its own section. Branching runs per answer choice on choice questions. A linear scale cannot route, so put the choice question next to the scale rather than trying to branch on the number.
Email the survey to a contact list in batches, or share one link in the channel people already read. Reuse the same form each round so the response summary and the CSV export carry the history.
Export to CSV for the round-on-round comparison, and push responses to Zapier, Make, or your own endpoint if the results should land in a spreadsheet or dashboard automatically.
One overall satisfaction rating you never reword, a rating grid covering workload, clarity, tools and recognition, a manager question, one choice question naming the area that needs attention, and one open question per branch. Around eight questions total, enough to act on, short enough to finish.
Yes. Respondents never need an account, and the survey collects only what you ask for. Leave out name, email and team, or make them optional. Remember that a combination of optional details can still identify someone in a small team.
Quarterly or twice a year, with identical wording each time. Monthly surveys tend to produce fatigue and falling response rates; annual ones are too slow to catch anything you can still fix.
Not inside Questionful. There is no round-on-round comparison view. Reuse the same form, export each round to CSV, and compare in a spreadsheet, or push responses to a dashboard through Zapier or Make.
This page is a guide rather than a stock template, so the CTA opens a blank form, or the AI generator on a paid plan, where a sentence gets you the first draft. The free plan covers unlimited forms and 100 responses a month with no card, which is enough for a small team; paid plans from €19 lift the cap.
Scales, grids and summaries, questions built to aggregate.
Feature19 types, including specialist ones most builders skip.
FeatureRoute each answer choice to its own section, so people only see what applies.
TemplateAnonymous pulse checks, 1:1 prep, and exit interviews.
TemplateAsk what would have kept them, while they will still tell you.
TemplateCSAT and NPS with the follow-up question matched to the score.
Use caseTurn recurring internal requests (time off, IT tickets, purchase approvals) into structured forms with a real audit trail.
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