As HR managers, you hold the key to a healthier, happier workplace – and it all starts with asking the right questions.
So let’s equip you with the most effective employee wellbeing survey questions to ask your teams, so you can truly get to know how they’re feeling.
Wellbeing surveys give you the data needed to help you understand the mental, physical, financial, social and emotional wellness of your employees and create evidence-based wellbeing strategies that meet their needs.
Not only do the questions help you understand your employees’ wellbeing, but they also give you insights into how they’re feeling in relation to specific areas; helping you create targeted approach to your wellbeing plan.
In a recent study by HSE, work-related stress, depression or anxiety accounted for 50% of all work-related ill health in the UK.
Employee wellbeing surveys allow you to be one step ahead, and address any underlying issues before they begin to have a negative impact on your organisation, and give you the ability to identify where you may need to provide more support.
Stribe recommends surveying employee wellbeing monthly, but this depends on a few factors that will be unique to your business.
For example, if you are a larger organisation, you may want to consider quarterly to give you more time to process the results. The bigger your organisation, the longer it can take to analyse and create change from wellbeing surveys.
If your organisation is going through a period of change or a busy time then you should consider running an ad-hoc survey to give you insights that will help you support your employees during that time.
Understanding employee needs during this busy periods will help you improve wellbeing and reduce absenteeism and staff turnover – saving you money in the long run.
Learn more about how often you should run employee surveys for your organisation.
Before we dive into the best wellbeing questions to ask, let’s take a look at our recommended employee engagement question structure.
If you don’t spend time thinking about the way your questions are structured, you risk creating more questions than answers when you try to analyse your results.
We believe that all questions should be:
You need to ask yourself honestly if you believe you are connecting and engaging with staff in the best way at the moment. If you aren’t, what do you need to do? You need to get a platform like Stribe that gives you that ability. 
As important as it is to check in on your employees with wellbeing in mind, it’s also important you’re asking the right questions.
We’ve put together a list of the best staff wellbeing survey questions to use in your next employee survey.
The questions will help you understand the levels of wellbeing within your employees, and see where they need support.
We’ve broken them down into the four areas of employee wellbeing to ensure you have a well-rounded view of employee wellbeing and can support improvement in all areas.
These questions will help you measure your progress over time and their more general nature can also often prompt some great ideas from employees!
If you’d like a platform that takes all the leg work out of surveying your employees, we’re here to help.
Stribe’s flexible surveys make it simple for you to engage your employees, especially for those who are the hardest to reach.
This makes it easy to gather both instant and frequent insights to help you better understand your team. Our people science team are always on hand too. They will help you create, plan and launch successful surveys – as well as maximising the rest of the tools within Stribe.
About the author
Lucy Harvey, COO at Stribe, has 11+ years’ experience in purpose-driven leadership roles across health, wellbeing, internal communications, employee engagement, and marketing. She is passionate about creating workplaces where people are happy, fulfilled, and feel comfortable and safe to talk.
