Category: People Analytics

How to Capture and Use Your Employees’ Anonymous Feedback

Nearly all human resource practitioners understand the importance of gathering regular, objective feedback from employees. From this information comes new ideas, improvements, and a sense of how the organization is doing. But getting employees to share their opinions and feedback can be akin to pulling teeth at the dentist’s office. It’s a slow and painful process […]






Back to the Future – 6 Months Later, Where Does Employee Engagement Stand?

Last year, you may remember that Thymometrics was included in a special Bersin report on the future of HR technology. As a leader in the employee engagement space, we are dedicated to improving this facet for all the companies we work with. Our real-time engagement solution takes a modern approach, but we understand the very […]






People Analytics Generates Art

It struck me the other day when running through a demo of our employee feedback platform that some of the analytics are almost art. Let’s face it, what is art? In the eye of the beholder clearly. So we thought we would share some of our more “abstract” and arty extracts from our real-time analytics […]






How To Promote Work-Life Balance in Your Workplace

Employee engagement is often viewed as a natural occurrence that results from a company’s efforts to create a better corporate culture. But one of the most often overlooked aspects of a positive culture is the work-life balance for employees. Work-life balance contributes to the overall employee motivation that results in greater productivity, retention, and innovation. […]






How to Get the Best Out of Your Employees – Improve Engagement

This article & infographic is produced by Paul Peters at Betterteam Are your employees turning in their bare-minimum performances? Wish you could motivate employees to really go above and beyond? A lot of people do. Gallup actually measures employee willingness to give their best – they call it employee engagement – and it’s usually around 30 percent. […]






How To Use Exit Surveys In Conjunction With Exit Interviews

When an employee announces that he or she is leaving a company, it’s a common human resource practice to conduct an exit interview. The purpose is to determine why an employee is leaving by giving them a chance to share their objective thoughts, with the hopes that either the company can convince them to stay, […]






When is the Right Time to Switch to Pulse Surveys?

Are you concerned with the status of your employee engagement levels? One of the best ways to measure the mood of your workforce is by conducting an impromptu survey – also called a pulse survey. This is an especially good practice during any change management initiatives. For example, if a new leader comes on board or […]






Employee Engagement – Why Should It Be Top Of Every CEO’s To-Do List?

Companies have long understood the connection between a great corporate culture and the positive engagement level of employees. But, up until recently, it was impossible to measure with any degree of accuracy. However, modern employee engagement surveys offer the ability to monitor and produce deep-dive visual reports that help keep track of how well the […]






What Is “People Analytics” and How Does it Apply To Your Business?

Ever imagined having a way to get inside the minds and behaviors of your employees using real-time data? For the first time in human resource history, business leaders have direct access to people analytics, which is a means to guide decision-making using detailed human-generated data. There’s no more guesswork involved with managing people, because the […]