Employee Work Satisfaction Pulse Survey
Tracks how satisfied employees are with their job, manager, and growth path, and flags flight risk before it shows up in attrition data. An AI follow-up interview digs into the reason behind each person's lowest-rated area instead of leaving it as an unexplained number.
Sample questions
A preview of what’s in the template. Every question is editable before you launch.
Overall, how satisfied are you with your job right now?
How satisfied are you with each of the following aspects of your work?
- Compensation and benefits
- Support from your manager
- Opportunities for career growth
- Work-life balance
- Recognition for your contributions
- +1 more
In the last 3 months, how often have you thought about leaving your job?
- Never
- Once or twice
- About monthly
- About weekly
- Almost daily
How would you rate your immediate manager's support over the last month?
How likely are you to recommend this company as a great place to work to a friend or former colleague?
If you could only fix ONE of these to improve your satisfaction at work, which would matter most and which would matter least?
- Higher pay
- More flexible hours or location
- Clearer path to promotion
- Better support from my manager
- More recognition for my work
- Improved work-life balance
- Better tools and resources
- Stronger team culture
Identify the respondent's lowest-rated area from the satisfaction battery (or their overall score if it's low) and ask them to walk through a specific recent moment that shaped that rating — what happened, who was involved, and what would have changed the outcome. If they said they've thought about leaving weekly or almost daily, gently probe what's kept them from acting on it so far. Keep the tone curious and non-judgmental, not confrontational.
Which department are you part of? (Template note: replace with your own department list before launching.)
- Engineering
- Sales
- Marketing
- Customer Support
- Operations
- People/HR
- Finance
- Other
- Prefer not to say
How long have you been with the company?
- Less than 6 months
- 6–12 months
- 1–3 years
- 3–5 years
- 5+ years
- Prefer not to say
What is your age range?
- Under 25
- 25–34
- 35–44
- 45–54
- 55+
- Prefer not to say
That's everything — thank you for your honesty. Responses are aggregated with your team's to shape concrete changes, and individual answers are never shared with your direct manager.
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
- Includes a satisfaction battery (overall opinion scale, matrix across job/manager/growth aspects, manager rating, and eNPS-style recommend question) so you get both a top-line score and a breakdown.
- Uses a max-diff question to force-rank which single issue would most improve satisfaction, giving prioritization data most satisfaction surveys don't collect.
- Pairs a flight-risk question (frequency of thinking about leaving) with an AI follow-up interview that automatically probes the respondent's lowest-rated area, turning a low number into an actual explained reason instead of leaving it unexplained.
- Closes with a transparent chat message about how responses are aggregated, plus standard demographic/tenure/department questions for segmentation.
Jotform
Work Satisfaction Survey Form TemplateA ready-to-field, drag-and-drop customizable form template for gauging work satisfaction. It's built on Jotform's general-purpose form builder rather than a dedicated employee-experience research platform, so scoring and reporting are basic compared to survey-specific tools.
What it does well
- Fielding-ready template with easy drag-and-drop editing
- Broad integration ecosystem typical of Jotform's form builder
- Low barrier to quick customization for non-researchers
Where it falls short
- Static question set with no adaptive follow-up on low-satisfaction answers
- No published methodology or prompt transparency since there's no AI interviewing component
- Reporting is generic form-analytics rather than a dedicated satisfaction/flight-risk report
Typeform
Work Satisfaction Survey Form TemplateA conversational one-question-at-a-time template that's pleasant to fill out and easy to brand. It's still a fixed-path form under the hood, so any 'follow-up' is limited to pre-set logic jumps rather than a genuine adaptive interview.
What it does well
- Polished, conversational respondent experience
- Simple logic branching for basic personalization
- Fast to deploy with minimal setup
Where it falls short
- No adaptive AI probing into an individual's specific lowest-rated area — only predefined logic paths
- No voice-based interview option
- No automated per-response quality scoring
QuestionPro
Employee Satisfaction Survey TemplateAn enterprise-oriented employee satisfaction template backed by QuestionPro's broader employee-experience and analytics suite. It covers standard satisfaction dimensions but, like other form-based tools, relies on fixed questions rather than dynamic interviewing.
What it does well
- Backed by a full employee-experience research platform with dashboards
- Established benchmarking and reporting tools
- Supports large-scale distribution for enterprise HR teams
Where it falls short
- Template itself is a static questionnaire, not an adaptive interview
- No mention of AI-driven follow-up or voice interviews
- No transparent, inspectable AI prompts since there's no AI interviewing layer
SurveyMonkey
Employee Satisfaction Survey TemplateA widely-used, expert-written employee satisfaction template with SurveyMonkey's standard reporting and benchmarking features. It's a solid static survey but doesn't dig deeper into individual low scores the way an adaptive interview would.
What it does well
- Well-established, easy-to-launch template with broad familiarity
- Built-in benchmarking and analysis dashboards
- Reliable survey logic and distribution tools
Where it falls short
- No adaptive AI interview to explain why a specific respondent rated an area low
- No voice AI interview option
- No per-response quality scoring or transparent AI prompt methodology
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