Originally published in IPA on July 8, 2013 Some have predicted that the age of social media will lead to the death of the employee engagement survey. In this article, Hugh Tonks of Thymometrics argues that far from disappearing, new technology will lead to a rebirth of the engagement surveyMore …
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Employee RE-Engagement … A Different Kettle Of Fish?
This article was written by Hugh Tonks, Thymometrics and originally published in HRZone on May 30, 2013. External and internal barriers to engagement To paraphrase the opening to Tolstoy’s magnificent Anna Karenina, “All engaged employees are alike; each disengaged employee is disengaged in their own way.” To understand this is to recogniseMore …
Do Employee Opinion Surveys Drive Employee Engagement?
Originally posted by Noel O’Reilly in XpertHR on Thursday, 23rd May 2013 In April 2013 I wrote a post, “Employee engagement surveys are dead, long live social media?” on this blog about a survey by Silverman Research for the CIPD which suggested that social media could fulfill some of theMore …
Why Social Media Cannot Replace The Annual Employee Survey
Originally posted by Hugh Tonks, Thymometrics in Personnel Today on May 22, 2013. Hugh Tonks, CEO of Thymometrics, looks at why employee opinion surveys still matter in the age of social media. A report released in March 2013, Social media and employee voice: the current landscape, summarises the characteristics of social mediaMore …
Can You Really Measure Engagement?
Originally posted by Hugh Tonks, Thymometrics in HRZone on May 16, 2013. If we are going to try to measure something, we need to know what it is we’re measuring. So an essential precursor to any attempt to measure engagement is to pin down a definition of what engagement actually is.More …
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What If Your Employee Survey Wasn’t An Annual Event?
Originally posted by Hugh Tonks, Thymometrics on HRZone, May 1, 2013. Most companies that conduct an employee survey seem to prefer it to happen as an annual event. It’s not hard to see why; any less often makes it look like it’s not that important, and any more often would be aMore …
Thymometrics Appoints Chris Reilly as VP, Sales
Press release posted on Personnel Today on 31 May 2013 at 08:47 Fast Growing SaaS Company Strengthens Senior Team. FULBOURN, CAMBRIDGESHIRE – June 3, 2013 – Global premier supplier of always-on real-time employee surveys Thymometrics is pleased to announce the appointment of Chris Reilly as VP, Sales. In just overMore …
Annual Staff Surveys – The Employee Viewpoint, Part 2
Breaking the Logjam In part 1 of this blog, we discussed the manifold problems which come free of charge with your expensive traditional survey, problems which militate against success, all caused by the choice of format: the lengthy annual multiple-choice questionnaire, instigated by the company for the company. We hintedMore …
Annual Staff Surveys – The Employee Viewpoint, Part 1
Introduction The annual Staff Survey is a commonplace event in today’s corporations, and the format – dozens of multiple-choice questions – is more or less universal. Go to almost any third party organisation that might run your survey for you, and you will be offered more or less the sameMore …
Thymometrics – A Sonnet
We have some news which could transform your life If you now survey staff but once a year Such questionnaires are bound to cause you strife Whene’er that season once again draws near Fear not, for we’ve been drawn to innovate And so we had a wonderful idea We’ve dispensedMore …