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Employee Job Satisfaction & Engagement Survey

Measures overall job satisfaction, the specific drivers behind it (workload, manager support, growth, recognition, pay, work-life balance), and retention risk — with an AI follow-up interview that digs into the real reason behind each employee's satisfaction score instead of just the number. Built for HR teams running quarterly or annual pulse checks.

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Sample questions

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13 questions · ~7 min
Q01
Message

Hi! We're checking in on how things are going at work. Your answers are used to improve the employee experience, and individual responses are kept confidential. This should take about 6 minutes — thanks for your honesty.

Q02
Opinion ScaleRequired

Overall, how satisfied are you with your job right now?

Scale: 1 – 5
Min:Very dissatisfiedMax:Very satisfied
Q03
MatrixRequired

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

6 rows × 5 columns
  • My workload is manageable
  • My manager supports me when I need it
  • I have clear opportunities to grow here
  • My contributions are recognized
  • I'm paid fairly for the work I do
  • +1 more
Columns: Strongly disagree · Disagree · Neutral · Agree · Strongly agree
Q04
Best–Worst Trade-off (MaxDiff)Required

If you could improve only a few things about your job, which would matter most to you — and which would matter least?

  • Compensation and benefits
  • Career growth opportunities
  • Work-life balance
  • Recognition for my work
  • Quality of management
  • Team culture and relationships
  • Job security
  • Meaningful, interesting work
Pick best & worst per setBest:Matters mostWorst:Matters least
Q05
Rating ScaleRequired

How would you rate your direct manager overall?

Range: 1 – 5
Min:PoorMax:Excellent
Q06
Opinion ScaleRequired

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

Scale: 0 – 10
Min:Not at all likelyMax:Extremely likely
Q07
Multiple ChoiceRequired

How often have you thought about leaving your job in the last 3 months?

  • Never
  • Rarely
  • Sometimes
  • Often
  • Almost constantly
Q08
AI Interview

Probe the real story behind this person's overall satisfaction score and their thoughts about leaving: ask what specifically drives that score, anchor on a recent example (a good week or a frustrating one) rather than general impressions. If they picked a top priority in the trade-off question, dig into what a real fix would look like for them. If they've been thinking about leaving 'often' or 'almost constantly', gently probe whether it's role-specific, manager-specific, or company-wide, without being alarmist.

Q09
Long Text

Is there anything about your job or team that we haven't asked about but should know?

Q10
Multiple Choice

Which department do you work in? (Template note: replace with your organization's actual department list before launching.)

  • Engineering
  • Sales
  • Marketing
  • Customer Support
  • Operations
  • People/HR
  • Finance
  • Other
Q11
Multiple Choice

How long have you worked at the company?

  • Less than 6 months
  • 6 months to 1 year
  • 1-3 years
  • 3-5 years
  • More than 5 years
  • Prefer not to say
Q12
Multiple Choice

Which best describes your role?

  • Individual contributor
  • People manager
  • Senior leadership
  • Prefer not to say
Q13
Message

Thank you for sharing this with us. Your responses will be combined with your team's (never shared individually) to shape concrete changes to management practices, growth paths, and workload.

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 satisfaction score with an AI follow-up interview that probes the real story behind each employee's rating and retention risk, rather than leaving low scores unexplained
  • Combines structured drivers (workload, manager support, growth, recognition, pay, work-life balance via a matrix and rating question) with an open-ended catch-all question so nothing important gets missed
  • Includes a MaxDiff prioritization question so HR teams learn which improvements matter most to employees, not just how they feel overall
  • Built specifically for recurring quarterly/annual pulse cycles, with department, tenure, and role questions ready to be customized per organization

Jotform

Healthcare Employee Satisfaction Survey Form Template

This is a niche variant built for healthcare employers rather than a general-purpose job satisfaction survey, so it's only partially comparable. It's a static, fielding-ready form rather than an interview-style tool. Jotform's strength is fast form building and integrations, not deep qualitative follow-up.

What it does well

  • Ready-to-deploy form specifically tailored to healthcare workplace context
  • Benefits from Jotform's broader form-building ecosystem (logic, integrations, styling)

Where it falls short

  • Fixed question set with no adaptive follow-up to explore why an employee gave a particular rating
  • Healthcare-specific framing makes it less directly reusable for general corporate HR teams
  • No published methodology for how responses are scored or interpreted

QuestionPro

Employee Satisfaction Survey Template

A general employee satisfaction template from an established survey platform, covering standard satisfaction and engagement topics. It's a conventional static questionnaire aimed at broad HR use cases rather than a guided interview experience. Good baseline coverage but leaves interpretation of 'why' scores occur to the HR team.

What it does well

  • Broad, established template library and enterprise survey infrastructure
  • Likely includes standard engagement/satisfaction question banks and reporting dashboards

Where it falls short

  • No adaptive AI probing into the reasons behind a satisfaction or eNPS-style score
  • Static question flow, so follow-up depth depends entirely on how many questions HR pre-writes
  • No transparent, publishable prompt logic since it isn't an AI-interview format

SurveyMonkey

Employee Satisfaction Survey Template

A widely used, general-purpose employee satisfaction template well suited to quick deployment and benchmarking. It relies on standard closed-ended questions and comment boxes rather than conversational follow-up. Strong for broad reach and familiarity, less suited to uncovering the specific 'why' behind each response.

What it does well

  • Well-known, easy-to-deploy template with strong brand trust for HR audiences
  • Likely supports benchmarking against SurveyMonkey's aggregate survey data

Where it falls short

  • No adaptive AI interview to dig into individual reasons behind scores; relies on generic open-text boxes
  • No voice-based interview option for capturing richer qualitative feedback
  • No per-response quality scoring or automated methodology transparency

SurveySparrow

Company Satisfaction Survey Template

A conversational-style survey template covering overall company satisfaction, which overlaps meaningfully with job satisfaction and engagement topics. It's built as a single fixed-flow chat-like survey rather than one with true adaptive AI-driven follow-up. Useful for a friendlier survey-taking experience, but not an interview-based probing tool.

What it does well

  • Conversational UI style that can feel more approachable than a traditional form
  • General company satisfaction focus that touches on engagement and retention themes

Where it falls short

  • Conversational format does not include AI-generated follow-up questions tailored to each answer
  • No voice AI interview option or guided screen-share tasks
  • No automated per-response quality scoring or transparent prompt documentation

Frequently asked questions

What questions are in the “Employee Job Satisfaction & Engagement Survey” template?

The template includes 13 ready-to-use questions, starting with: “Hi! We're checking in on how things are going at work. Your answers are used to improve the employee experience, and ind…” · “Overall, how satisfied are you with your job right now?” · “How much do you agree with each statement about your current role?”. The full set is previewed above, and every question is editable.

How long does this survey take to complete?

Respondents typically finish the 13 questions in about 7 minutes.

Can I customize this template?

Yes — every question, answer option, and the ordering is editable before you launch. You can add or remove questions, or ask the AI editor to rework the survey around your research goal.

Is this template free to use?

Yes. Open it in the editor and start customizing right away — no account required to try it, and the free plan covers launching your survey.

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