The answers@work Price Difference

In times like these, it is important human resources leaders deliver the most they can with the scarce resources available to them.  When delivering employee survey services to their management team, the HR leader must get the most for their money spent.  With many employee survey companies the issue has been turn time for reports and delivery of useful and meaningful data. With answers@work (a@w), as surveys are completed by employees, they automatically enter our database and are available in powerful, informative and fully customizable formats, all delivered instantly and at a low, affordable price.  Also worth comparing, most a@w custom features are at no additional cost. 

You might think systems like those brought to you by a@w would be costly, complex and time consuming to start up. The process of doing business with a@w involves a few simple steps to attain rich and meaningful data: 

Organization set-up: Because a@w reports are fully customizable and can give organization executive-level information for the entire organization or segments such as departments, work units, or job type.  Specific manager results are also delivered.  To get this type of comparative data, the set-up data is very important, yet must be easy to capture. We start our relationship by identifying your business needs and help you to customize a report generation structure that is easy to start and meets your reporting expectations.  We typically get the start up information through simple downloads from your human resources information system.

Survey customization: All of our surveys are highly-researched and “off-the-shelf”.” For many organizations, there is no need for customization. However, recognizing every business has varying objectives and priorities, we do offer the ability to add custom questions and even modify some of the language in our existing “Standard Questions”.  Frankly, most competitor surveys have not researched and delivered quality employee retention and engagement focused questions.  This results in wasted time developing questions, instead of focusing on analyzing meaningful results available in a@w standard and customized reports.

Survey delivery: Included with a subscription to a@w, organizations get a web-based “back-office” which we call your company portal. The portal allows clients to assign surveys at anytime which are delivered by email and include a link to the survey.  a@w also provides multiple delivery approaches including completion via the web, telephonic, paper and IVR (interactive voicemail response) surveys.

Survey Capture:  The responses from these delivery methods are immediately entered in the client portal making them accessible “real time, anytime” in the online reporting system.  Frequently, because the majority of surveys are collected online, the data/reports are instantaneous and accessible by HR management and others given access to some or all of the reporting system.  There is no waiting period like with other survey companies where organizations don’t see results for several weeks or even months.  Additionally, a reminder system has been created for all those surveys that are assigned yet untaken; further increasing the organizations likelihood of receiving high utilization rates.

Reporting & Analysis: Our Standard Reports are not only powerfully informative, but also, very easy to use. Each report breaks down different segments of your organization. In large organizations, reports show regions, divisions, locations, even departments, units and manager results.  This gives our clients the ability to analyze and compare side-by-side retention category scores as well as individual question results by varying locations or managers. Our Custom Reports can show combinations of demographic, location, and manager comparisons resulting in thousands of possible report presentations.     

In summary, why spend more in tough economic times, answers@work provides the most at affordable prices.