Case Study: How TeamUp Halved Its Time to Hire
“Great talent has options. If we want to attract top Filipino professionals and keep them, we can’t just say we’re a good employer. We needed an independent body to confirm it.” Anna Tobillo · CEO, TeamUp Remote Talent Staffing Company size Small, 30 to 99 employees, based in the Philippines under a U.S. parent company […]
12 Signs You’re Losing Employee Trust (And How to Win It Back)
Key insights Trust is the defining quality of a great workplace, drawn from more than 100 million employee survey responses collected by Great Place To Work since 1992. Trust erosion appears in what employees stop saying, stop volunteering and stop questioning, often months before it appears in resignations. Repair runs as a sequence: acknowledge the […]
How to Share Employee Survey Results
According to research by Gallup, only 8% of employees strongly agree that their organization takes action on the surveys it runs. That means that more often than not, the other 92 per cent filled in a form and then felt like nothing happened. We see that gap open up time and again in the weeks […]
How Multinational Companies Benchmark Workplace Culture
Key insights You can compare workplace culture between countries when the core survey questions are identical. Keeping 70 to 80 per cent of questions identical across countries is what makes the comparison genuine. A low-scoring office improving fast is usually healthier than a high-scoring one sliding backwards. A 26-country study of survey response styles found […]
What Causes Employee Engagement Scores to Fall
Key insights Falling engagement usually traces back to leadership gaps, patchy communication and employees losing sight of why their work matters. Great Place To Work research shows trust predicts retention, innovation and business performance more reliably than an engagement score does. Patterns only appear once you segment survey results by team, department and manager. Your […]
What Alex Eala’s Wimbledon Run Can Teach Us About Performing Under Pressure
“A high-performing workplace is not one where people never feel pressure. It’s one where pressure is shared, explained, and finite” At Wimbledon, pressure has a habit of making itself known. It sits in the hush before a serve. In the crowd’s intake of breath when the ball clips the net. In the long walk back […]
What are Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)?
The inclusion gap 83% vs 59% Employees who say their ERG is effective are far more likely to feel included at work: 83%, compared with 59% for employees who rate their ERG ineffective, according to McKinsey research involving almost 25,000 employees. For HR leaders, employer branding teams and people managers, ERGs can be one of […]
Employee feedback action plans: a practical guide for leaders
KEY INSIGHTS Employee feedback analysis requires looking beyond surface-level scores to uncover patterns across themes. Root cause diagnosis helps you identify why engagement challenges exist, not just where they appear in survey data. Great Place To Work’s Trust Index Survey gives organizations research-backed insights that connect employee feedback to culture improvement. Collecting employee feedback […]
Which External Signals Have the Biggest Impact on Employer Reputation?
KEY INSIGHTS Employee reviews outrank polished employer messaging. A poor hiring process becomes public before day one. Leaders build credibility when their actions match their words. A candidate has one thumb scrolling through job listings, the other through reviews from people who have worked at the company. Your new careers video may be beautifully […]
How to Run an Employee Experience Survey People Trust
KEY INSIGHTS Trust relies on clear confidentiality and visible follow-through. Only ask questions your organization can act on. Managers influence participation more than reminder emails do. The survey link arrives. Someone opens it on their phone between meetings, scans the questions and wonders two things: ‘Will anyone know what I say?’ and ‘Will anything […]