Top 4 Free or Affordable Employee Satisfaction Software Applications for Small Business

Do you regularly monitor employee satisfaction and engagement levels in your business? Well, if you don’t, you should do as surveys suggest, (including this global study from Blessingwhite Training) that around 70% of today’s employees are disengaged.

The engagement levels of your staff should be taken seriously as according to research from Hewitt Associates, employee engagement drives performance. They found that, ‘firms with high levels of employee engagement enjoy enjoyed higher 19% higher than average shareholder returns in 2009. In firms with low levels of employee engagement, total shareholder return was actually 44% below average’.

This is why all employers should be measuring employee engagement levels on an annual basis and then putting in corrective HR measures to improve engagement. In the old days this had to be done with an awkward paper questionnaire which made the process of data collection and analysis laborious and impractical for  many companies.

Luckily, today there are a whole host on on-line employee engagement and satisfaction survey tools which you can use to quickly gather, collate and analyze your employee’s opinions of your firm. And below I have listed theTop 4 Free or Affordable Employee Satisfaction Software Applications.

1. Survey Methods. This is a powerful online employee satisfaction survey software tool which you can use to quickly create a customized employee satisfaction survey and send invitations to your employees. You can view who has and hasn’t completed the survey, allowing you to easy chase the stragglers up. The system allows you to create reports in graph and/or chart format. It also contains a library of 20 different survey question types to choose from, and they have survey template libraries for Human Resources and Organizational Development. You can also create surveys in unlimited languages. They have  a basic free product suitable for small businesses and have pricing plans, ranging from $9.00 a month up to $156.00 a month for enterprises. This is a powerful ‘click and go’ employee satisfaction solution that is great for small firms and it hardly seems worth looking at anything else, but in the interests of comparison, we will.
2. SurveysPro. Does a lot of what Survey Methods does. This is also a powerful on-line employee satisfaction survey software tool. It contains 5 human resources survey templates which you can use to quickly create your survey. It has excellent reporting features. There is a free account, which is suitable for small businesses as it allows you to send up to 50 invites a month and their premium accounts start at $100 a year where you can send 1,000 invites a month.
3. WebSurveyMaster. Once again this employee satisfaction survey software application is an easy ‘click and go’ solution. It contains plenty of survey templates, and also has a question bank, which you can use to quickly develop surveys for your business. They have a free account which allows up to 100 survey responses a month so perfect for small business.
4. SmartSurvey. This is another powerful employee satisfaction survey software application for small business with ready made survey templates and so pretty much ready to go. They too have a free edition with a maximum of 15 questions per survey and 100 responses per month and so pretty suitable for small business

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