PULSE SURVEY SOFTWARE

See where your people stand. Act before they leave.

Most organisations find out how employees feel weeks or months after the moment has passed. Qualtrics pulse survey software changes that, giving you continuous feedback, real-time employee sentiment, and the tools to act.

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Employee issues shouldn’t roll over to next year

The organisations driving improved team performance are moving beyond one annual engagement survey. They're collecting employee feedback continuously, analysing it in real time, and taking action when and where it counts.

40%

increase in detailed employee feedback 

10–20×

 reduction in time spent on data analysis 

70%

increase in collaborative action planning

What continuous listening makes possible

Design surveys that employees actually complete

Build employee pulse surveys on EX25, Qualtrics’ science-backed methodology measuring five outcomes proven to predict business results: engagement, inclusion, intent to stay, well-being, and expectations.  Draw from a library of 300+ certified questions.

  • Choose from pre-built pulse survey templates or build from scratch using your own survey creation logic

  • Set automated distribution cadences (weekly, fortnightly, or monthly) 

  • Use rotating and random question sets to maintain relevance and avoid survey fatigue

Alert card flagging a productivity risk in Engineering West Region: manager effectiveness down 18pts over 60 days, with a 23% productivity decline predicted next quarter.

Reduce your time to insight

Stop spending weeks preparing reports. The themes, priorities, and risks inside your employee feedback surface automatically, reaching the right people, in the right format, in real time.

  • Comment summaries analyse thousands of open-text survey results in minutes, identifying sentiment and themes without manual coding

  • Role-based dashboards deliver actionable insights to executives, HRBPs, and people managers. No manual distribution required

  • Configurable anonymity thresholds encourage more honest and higher-quality employee sentiment data

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Close the feedback loop at every level

With Qualtrics, your managers move from survey results to experience improvements without waiting on HR to enable every step. And when employees see their feedback acted on, engagement climbs, regretted attrition drops, and the impact reaches the bottom line.

  • Manager Assist delivers specific contextual recommendations directly to each team

  • Integrated action planning tracks progress and maintains accountability across the organisation

  • Idea boards let employees propose solutions; building transparency, trust, and shared ownership of change

Two Qualtrics cards showing productivity scores by lifecycle stage—Onboarding 82, Employee Development 76, Employee Engagement 61—and a biggest drop-off insight showing productivity dips 24% during role transitions across 3,100 employees.

See how your engagement scores compare

Connect your survey results to the world's largest EX benchmark library, validated across 32 million responses from over 1,000 organisations, so you know not just where you stand, but what's possible.

  • Compare employee satisfaction and engagement levels against industry, region, and company size, with benchmarks spanning 65 industries and 60 countries

  • Identify where your programme leads and where it lags, with statistical significance built into the analysis

  • Track trends over time and measure the real-world impact of your continuous feedback and actions

Professionals in a meeting alongside a Qualtrics employee engagement card showing a 12-point year-on-year increase across the enterprise workforce.
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