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Employee Engagement Software

Real-time employee engagement insights and action planning

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Empower every manager in your organisation to improve employee engagement with real-time insights that show them exactly where to focus their efforts to increase employee performance.

Qualtrics employee engagement software platform makes it easy to pinpoint experience, engagement and productivity drivers, so you can act in real-time to create a world-class company culture.

  • Improve employee engagement across the organisation
  • Act quickly on real-time data to address problems
  • See how your actions impact employee productivity and organisational KPIs
  • Enable managers with data and action planning
  • Reduce unwanted and costly attrition

Meet your world-class engagement program


Personalise the experience

Understand every experience that matters to your employees and automatically deliver real-time insights to their managers so they can take action. Employee feedback automatically maps to your organisation’s org chart so everyone can see the insights that matter most to them.

Get employee feedback at scale

Create a digital open door by enabling your employees to give feedback how and when it suits them. Our scalable employee software, complete with pre-packaged expert content and surveys, helps you capture ongoing employee feedback to drive organisational change.

Actionable insights that drive impact

Turn your employee feedback into genuine improvements with analytics designed to drive actions. As data flows into the platform, you’ll see which key drivers to focus on so you can have the biggest impact on engagement, as well as the ability to track your improvements with action-planning tools and follow-up pulse surveys.

See how our employee engagement software works

Your organisation might be complex. Your employee engagement software shouldn’t.

Let us do the heavy lifting for you – our patented organisation hierarchy tool automatically maps feedback to your structure, no matter how complex. It means dashboards and results are pre-configured to deliver the right data to every leader and manager in the organisation, not just the human resources department. With 20+ filters that allow them to drill down into employee feedback, they can find engagement drivers at every level of the organisation.

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Intelligent analytics for employee engagement

Find insights hidden deep in your employee feedback system with Qualtrics iQ, our predictive intelligence engine that applies artificial intelligence and machine learning to employee engagement responses in real-time.

  • Spot themes and trends in open text feedback with sentiment and topic analysis in Text iQ
  • Find relationships between employee engagement outcomes with powerful statistical analysis that’s just one click through Stats iQ
  • Spot problems early with automated at-risk alerts for critical issues like attrition with Predict iQ

Employee engagement expertise out of the box

Launch a world-class employee engagement program in no time, with Certified XM Solutions – pre-packaged expert content including surveys, workflow, automation and action planning built directly into the platform.

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Employee engagement software FAQs


Employee engagement software helps you to first understand what motivates your people to go above and beyond at work, and then design a system of action to build these insights into your organisation. It helps organizations measure, design, and improve employee experiences to keep your best people and attract top talent.

Employee engagement software, such as Qualtrics Employee Experience Management, helps you to first understand what motivates your people to go above and beyond at work, and then design a system of action to build these insights into your organisation. Good Employee engagement software will enable you to increase engagement and productivity by:

  • Increasing organisational understanding of employee experience gaps and fostering continuous actions at all levels of the organisation to close the gaps
  • Building internal EX capability to ensure HR has the culture, competencies, and technology to impact the business

It should also be a driver of attracting top talent by:

  • Enabling recruitment teams to close candidate experience gaps
  • Finding, hiring, and retaining top talent to build critical skills and competencies and foster a diverse and inclusive culture
  • Effectively communicating the employer brand and culture throughout external and internal channels
  • Increasing offer acceptance rate and reducing time-to-hire with great candidate experiences at all touchpoints

Employee engagement software also allows you to retain your top talent and build a talent-first culture by:

  • Developing the talent needed to improve organisational strength and achieve – business goals
  • Developing skilled and adaptable teams needed to drive business performance and navigate change
  • Empowering the organisation to act on insights from employee feedback
  • Being able to proactively act, easily measure, and clearly communicate talent results and business impact
  • One of the biggest benefits of employee engagement software is that it enables organizations to increase engagement and productivity. This is achieved by increasing organisational understanding of employee experience gaps and fostering continuous actions at all levels of the organisation to close the gaps.
  • Employee engagement software also helps attract top talent by enabling recruitment teams to close candidate experience gaps during the interview process. This means finding, hiring, and retaining top talent to build critical skills and competencies and foster a diverse and inclusive culture.
  • Employee engagement software is a proven driver of revenue, quality, productivity, and customer satisfaction. With only 30% of employees engaged in their work, it’s more important than ever to measure and improve engagement.
  • That’s where we come in. With Qualtrics Employee Experience software, we make it easy for you to figure out which levers to pull to increase engagement — and we do it in real-time.
  • It’s important that you’re able to integrate HR, business processes, and systems (your operational data or O-data) with feedback from your employees on their experiences (experience data or X-data).
  • Your O-data tells you what’s happening, whereas your X-data tells you why. It’s important that your employee engagement software doesn’t just give you the what, but helps you to understand why.
  • This not only helps you to maintain a holistic view of the workforce and understand the impact of workforce decisions, but also helps to drive employee engagement and productivity. Which in turn reduces attrition.
  • However, one of the most important employee engagement software features is going beyond the what and the why to give you insights coupled with actions. Without action, it’s impossible to improve.
  • With Qualtrics Employee Experience Management, you’ll get data, insights, and actions. This means you can loop at speed, for both programmatic and real-time experience improvements.
  • Not only that, but you’ll be easily able to Identify drivers of engagement and productivity at the team, region, and division level and then ensure local and macro actions are taken.
  • With Qualtrics Employee Experience Management you’ll also get global benchmarks, which can be filtered by region. Then prioritise action areas with industry benchmarks.
  • With key drivers, text analytics, and stats correlations built into the platform, we surface areas for the organisation to focus on without having to spend hours exporting experience and operational data for analysis into SPSS or other systems.
  • While these statistical tools can be used at any level in the organisation, the most powerful key drivers surface at the highest levels to identify the policies, processes, and programs that employees struggle with the most.
  • Qualtrics Employee Experience Management also offers best-in-class security, data privacy, and compliance (GDPR, HITRUST, ISO27001, FedRamp). Plus, Data isolation provides an even greater level of security protection. Enhanced confidentiality is an industry-leading, patent-pending technology that safeguards employees’ confidentiality.

What is employee engagement?

Employee engagement is a measure of someone’s attitude at work; how they think, feel and act towards helping their employer meet their goals. Employee engagement is a holistic way to measure employees feeling toward their employer and role. Employee engagement can take into account satisfaction, happiness and commitment to helping their employer reach its goals. Highly engaged employees, coupled with the right skill set and proper role leads to employees and companies meeting and exceeding their goals.

Employee engagement software is a proven driver of revenue, quality, productivity, and customer satisfaction. With only 30% of employees engaged in their work, it’s more important than ever to measure and improve engagement. That’s where we come in. With Qualtrics Employee Experience software, we make it easy for you to figure out which levers to pull to increase engagement — and we do it in real-time.

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