THE FUTURE OF FEVS

Own your survey. Uncover your insights. Shape your outcomes.

For the first time, agencies have the opportunity to manage their own FEVS program. In one easy-to-use platform, Qualtrics gives you everything you need to design your survey, keep the federal comparisons you count on, and turn employee feedback into visible workforce improvements. 

*OPM's FEVS changes are a proposed rule and have not been finalized. This page reflects the proposal as published and will be updated as it progresses.

FEVS

One platform built for the new FEVS

Qualtrics brings FEVS benchmarked measurement, agency owned control, AI-powered manager action, and FedRAMP High authorization together in one platform.

Run your FEVS program your way.

Control the scope, timing, and content of your engagement survey on a FedRAMP High authorized platform. Track results against FEVS benchmark questions that stay consistent, so comparisons stay accurate.

  • Agency owned design
  • FedRAMP High authorized
  • FEVS benchmark built in
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Turn feedback into manager action.

Give frontline supervisors role-based dashboards with near real-time anonymous data and science-backed suggestions for next steps. Each manager reviews recommendations built from their own team's results.

  • Role based dashboards
  • Near real-time data
  • Science-backed suggestions
Qualtrics workforce engagement dashboard showing a score of 74, up 6 points since initiative launch, with role clarity flagged as the top concern and 3 manager actions recommended.

Stay ahead of the reporting deadline.

Open ended questions, branch logic, closed loop feedback, and alerts for concerning responses are built in. Real-time dashboards are built for the federal reporting timeline.

  • Real-time dashboards
  • Closed loop feedback
  • Alerts for concerning responses
Qualtrics XM Employee Lifecycle Active Interventions Triggered by engagement signals module.

FedRAMP High authorized. Designed to Support Mission-Critical Government Operations.

FedRAMP High represents the highest impact level under the FedRAMP program, requiring continuous monitoring, extensive documentation, and some of the most stringent data protection requirements for federal cloud environments. Qualtrics is FedRAMP  High authorized and operates a dedicated Government Cloud environment, enabling agencies to deploy with confidence.

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Authorizations and certifications

FedRAMP High
DISA IL4
HITRUST
ISO 27001,42001
GovRAMP
GDPR compliant including “Right to Erasure”
CCPA right to access capabilities
HIPAA compliant
CONUS-based data centers for Data Residency

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Blog: What OPM's FEVS proposal means for your agency

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Start planning your agency-owned survey

Talk to our federal team about standing up your agency-owned survey ahead of the next reporting cycle.

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