Workplace Culture

Go Beyond Surveys

Updated on 28 November 2019
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Written by Alexander Kjerulf
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It is essential to find the metrics that are relevant to your employees, your customers and your organization.

Here are all the potential ways to measure employee happiness we’ve come up with – beyond just polling employees.

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What metrics are important for companies?

Two employee-related metrics are:

  • Absenteeism
  • Employee turnover
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Hiring

Happy organizations also attract more and better new hires. That means that you could also measure happiness using metrics like:

  • Applications received per opening job positions
  • Time to fill positions
  • Rate of acceptance of job offers
  • Rate of successful hires (how many new employees stay at least x months)

This will be especially relevant in fast-growing workplaces or in industries where there is strong competition among the best talents.

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Customer metrics

We know that happy employees make the customers happy. Some potential metrics are:

  • Customer happiness / satisfaction
  • Customer loyalty Brand perception

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Employee performance

We also know that happy employees do a better job, so measuring happiness could also mean tracking metrics like:

  • Productivity
  • Quality / errors
  • Workplace safety/accidents
  • The success rate of innovation/change projects
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Negative behaviour

Given that happy employees are less likely to show bad behaviour at work, we could also track metrics like:

  • HR complaints
  • Fraud/stealing

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Physiological measures

This area is a little more speculative but some people have suggested measuring things like:

  • Cortisol in saliva samples
  • Blood pressure
  • Sleep time and quality

These do raise some ethical issues around privacy and bodily autonomy.

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Connecting the Dots

No workplace should measure all of these metrics. Depending on the industry, situation and type of employees only a small subset of these will be relevant. It’s up to each workplace to define which the most relevant ones and find a good way to track them and act on the results.

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