Fighting Survey Fatigue: 9 Ways to Get the DEI Information You Need to Transform your Workplace

How can you inspire employees to fill out surveys and generate the honest answers you need to enhance your DEI programming? Here's our prescription for survey fatigue.

Fighting Survey Fatigue: 9 Ways to Get the DEI Information You Need to Transform your Workplace
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As a DEI leader at your company, you’ve been routinely surveying your employees about diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. However, you’ve noticed a disturbing trend: a significant, steady decline in response rates. Some employees are not even opening the survey invitation email. Some aren’t following the survey instructions correctly. Others are leaving many non-required fields blank. Comment fields are empty or filled with the same few perfunctory words.

The problem is survey fatigue, and it seems to be getting worse.