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Employee Job Climate & Workplace Culture Evaluation

A pulse-style survey that measures trust, workload sustainability, manager support, and overall satisfaction across your workforce, then uses an AI follow-up interview to surface the specific story behind each person's lowest-rated area. Built for HR and people teams running quarterly or annual climate checks.

Sample questions

A preview of what’s in the template. Every question is editable before you launch.

13 questions · ~7 min
Q01
Message

Thanks for taking a few minutes to share how work is really going. This helps leadership understand what's working and what isn't — your answers are more useful the more honest they are. About 6 minutes, and individual responses stay confidential per our usual survey policy.

Q02
Opinion ScaleRequired

How likely are you to recommend this organization as a great place to work to a friend or former colleague?

Scale: 010
Min:Not at all likelyMax:Extremely likely
Q03
MatrixRequired

How much do you agree with each statement about your current work environment?

6 rows × 5 columns
  • I trust the decisions made by senior leadership
  • My workload is manageable most weeks
  • I feel recognized when I do good work
  • Communication about changes affecting my team is clear and timely
  • I feel comfortable raising concerns without fear of negative consequences
  • +1 more
Columns: Strongly disagree · Disagree · Neutral · Agree · Strongly agree
Q04
Multiple ChoiceRequired

In the last 30 days, how often have you felt overwhelmed by your workload?

  • Never
  • Rarely
  • Sometimes
  • Often
  • Nearly every day
Q05
Rating ScaleRequired

How would you rate the day-to-day support you get from your direct manager?

Range: 15
Min:PoorMax:Excellent
Q06
Best–Worst Trade-off (MaxDiff)Required

From the factors below, pick the one that matters most and the one that matters least to your day-to-day experience at work right now.

  • Fair pay and benefits
  • Career growth opportunities
  • Support from my manager
  • Work-life balance
  • Recognition for good work
  • Job security
  • Team culture and relationships
  • Autonomy over how I do my job
Pick best & worst per setBest:Matters mostWorst:Matters least
Q07
AI Interview

Identify the respondent's lowest-scoring or most concerning answer so far (their climate-statement disagreements, low manager rating, frequent workload overwhelm, or a low recommend score) and probe for a specific recent example — what happened, when, and what it made them think or do. If everything looks positive, ask what single change would make their experience even better, and what's currently getting in the way of that.

Q08
Multiple ChoiceRequired

Thinking about the next 12 months, how likely are you to still be working here?

  • Definitely leaving
  • Probably leaving
  • Not sure
  • Probably staying
  • Definitely staying
Q09
Long Text

If you could change one thing about the work climate here, what would it be?

Q10
Dropdown

How long have you been with the organization?

  • Less than 6 months
  • 6 months to 1 year
  • 1-3 years
  • 3-5 years
  • 5-10 years
  • More than 10 years
  • Prefer not to say
Q11
Multiple Choice

Which department or team are you part of?

  • (Replace with Department A)
  • (Replace with Department B)
  • (Replace with Department C)
  • Prefer not to say
Q12
Multiple Choice

Which age range do you fall into?

  • Under 25
  • 25-34
  • 35-44
  • 45-54
  • 55-64
  • 65 or older
  • Prefer not to say
Q13
Message

That's everything — thank you for your honesty. Results will be aggregated into a workplace climate report shared with leadership, and individual responses will never be attributed to you by name.

What’s included

  • AI follow-ups

    Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.

  • Attention checks

    Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.

  • AI-drafted copy

    Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.

  • Auto report

    Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.

How it compares

We reviewed the closest templates from other survey tools. Here’s what they do well — and where this template goes further.

Why this template

  • Goes beyond a static rating grid: pairs a matrix on trust/workload/manager support/satisfaction with an AI follow-up interview that automatically probes the respondent's single lowest-scoring or most concerning answer to surface the actual story behind it.
  • Combines quantitative signals (recommend-as-a-workplace opinion scale, manager support rating, 12-month retention likelihood, max-diff prioritization of what matters most) with open-ended context (what one thing they'd change) in a single flow.
  • Captures tenure, department, and age range so results can be segmented by cohort during aggregation, with clear opening and closing chat messages that set expectations and confirm confidentiality/aggregation.
  • Every AI follow-up prompt is transparent and reviewable, and responses get automated quality scoring, so HR teams can trust the qualitative data alongside the scaled metrics.

QuestionPro

Employee Job Climate Evaluation Survey Template

This is the closest direct match on topic — a ready-to-field template aimed at the same job climate/culture use case. QuestionPro is an established survey platform with strong reporting and analytics tooling. However, the template itself is a fixed questionnaire rather than an adaptive interview.

What it does well

  • Purpose-built template specifically for employee job climate, so questions are pre-mapped to the topic
  • Backed by a mature survey platform with broad distribution, panel, and analytics features
  • Likely includes standard climate dimensions (satisfaction, engagement) out of the box

Where it falls short

  • Static question set with no adaptive AI follow-up to probe an individual's specific lowest-rated area
  • No voice AI interview option for respondents who'd rather talk than type
  • No visible per-response quality scoring or transparent prompt methodology

Ready to launch?

Open this template in the editor. Every part is yours to change before the first respondent sees it.