Employee Engagement Survey

Employee insights and benchmarks to help drive business growth, unleash innovation, and build a workplace environment where people can thrive. ​

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Is your organisation one of NZ’s Best Places to Work?

The Best Places to Work Survey provides an assessment of your employee experience and a benchmark against other similar sized organisations. It is the ideal tool to help drive innovation and consistency across your business, as well as identify opportunities for growth and improvement.

The BPTW Annual Survey is also a requirement for entry into the prestigious BPTW Awards.

Pillars of Best Places to Work

Trust in Leadership
Connection to Purpose
Working Environment
Innovation
Wellbeing
Connection with Team
Performance & Growth
Tools & Tech
Sustainability

The BPTW Survey captures feedback, insights and viewpoints from your employees across nine pillars spanning all aspects of their experience. The feedback is compiled into a dashboard, allowing you to easily view your results.

Once the survey concludes, you'll receive a benchmarking report that compares your organisation's results with those of similar-sized businesses.

How it works

Sign Up

Sign your organisation up for the BPTW Survey. We’ll provide a Survey Toolkit that contains your unique survey link plus marketing and promotional collateral. You can start the survey anytime between now and the closing date of 16 May 2025.

Additional Pulse Surveys can be purchased and used as a pulse check at times of your choosing throughout the year.

Measure

Share your survey link with your employees. Once you start the survey your employees will have 14 days to submit their responses. A minimum of 60% of your workforce must complete the survey to qualify for the BPTW Awards. The survey should take around 8-10 minutes to complete.

Assess

Within 5 days of starting the survey, you’ll have access to a live dashboard to track your results in real time. The survey closes on 16th May 2025. Once we have collated all the data, you’ll receive your benchmarking report, where you can measure your employee experience against the best in New Zealand.

Boost your Employee Experience Programme with Pulse Surveys!

Pulse Surveys are an excellent way to spot-check progress and track improvements within your employee experience initiatives, ensuring continuous engagement and growth. The packages are designed to complement the BPTW Annual Survey. You can run up to two Pulse Surveys throughout the year, until September 2025, and add up to two customised questions per survey.

Pulse Surveys are purely for your organisation and are ideal for staying proactive and gaining real-time insights between your main survey submissions. They aren’t benchmarked against other organisations and do not form part of entry to the BPTW Awards.

Benefits of the BPTW Employee Engagement Survey

Insights
Gain insight into your employee experience and use the survey to complement your existing initiatives.​
Business Outcomes
Drive better business outcomes through a programme of continuous learning and improvement across employee experience, customer satisfaction, business performance and community engagement.​
Positive Impact
Utilise the insights to drive change and make a positive impact on employee wellbeing, satisfaction, and engagement, productivity, and performance.​
People Voice
Show your people that their voice matters and they have the power to shape their experience.​
Team Development
Affirm your commitment to your team’s development and professional growth.​
Employer Brand
Boost your employer brand with BPTW recognition.​
Benchmark
Benchmark against other organisations of a similar size.​
Awards & Recognition
Access to the BPTW Awards is via participation in the annual survey.​

Your partner in continuous business improvement

The BPTW programme has been designed to support a continuous programme of improvement over three key services, to help Kiwi organisations grow, evolve, and succeed. In addition to the employee engagement survey, you may also be interested in:​
BPTW Awards
The BTPW Awards recognise and celebrate New Zealand’s Best Places to Work. Organisations that nurture talent, invest in culture, build sustainable futures, and forge the way in workplace excellence. Entry to the BPTW Awards is determined by the results of the annual survey.
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Masterclasses
We have some of the world’s most brilliant minds right here in New Zealand who are nurturing talent, investing in technology, unleashing innovation, driving economic growth, and building a limitless future. BPTW Masterclasses are all about sharing the passion and insights into what goes into creating the Best Places to Work, to motivate and inspire us all to go further.
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The survey programme and timeline

What our clients say

Tax Traders + Taxi
"As businesses, we need to continually improve how we care, nurture, and develop our people so they experience goodness, joy, and satisfaction at work."
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House of Travel
"Best Places to Work is a great opportunity to be benchmarked against other kiwi employers and to find out what works for us and what works for others."
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LawVu
"Being a part of the Best Places to Work program isn't just about receiving accolades; it's about affirming our commitment to our team's development and growth."
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Buy your Best Places to Work Survey(s)

BPTW Annual Survey

BPTW Annual Survey + 1x Pulse Survey

BPTW Annual Survey + 2x Pulse Surveys

To purchase, click on the box below that matches your employee numbers.

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Includes:

BPTW Annual Survey

Must be completed before BPTW Survey close date, 16th May 2025

Survey Dashboard

National Benchmarking Report

Survey Marketing Kit

Free entry into the BPTW Awards for Shortlisted organisations

Tickets to BPTW Awards Ceremony not Included

1x Pulse Survey

Access to Dashboard

Flexible Delivery Date*

*Pulse Survey should be undertaken at least 2 months before or 2 months after BPTW Survey is completed by employees

2x Pulse Surveys

Access to Dashboard

Flexible Delivery Date*

*Pulse Surveys should be undertaken at least 2 months before or 2 months after BPTW Survey is completed by employees

Have a question, want to learn more about the survey, or understand how the survey can help your business?

Get in touch with the team below.

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FAQ

What are the benefits of participating in the BPTW Annual Survey?

  • Continuous improvement: Gain insight into your employee experience and use the survey to complement your existing initiatives.
  • Drive better business outcomes: Through a programme of continuous learning and improvement across employee experience, customer satisfaction, business performance and community engagement.
  • Benchmark your workplace: Measure your employee experience against the best in New Zealand.
  • Affirm your commitment to your people: Show your people that their voice matters and they have the power to shape their experience.
  • Boost your brand: Gain recognition as a top employer and attract the best talent.
  • Data-driven insights: Utilise the insights to drive change and make a positive impact on employee wellbeing, satisfaction, and engagement, productivity, and performance.
  • Get recognised: The Annual Survey results provide access to the prestigious BPTW Awards.

What does the survey measure?

The survey covers nine key pillars of employee experience:

  • Trust in Leadership
  • Environment
  • Wellbeing
  • Performance & Growth
  • Connection to Team
  • Tools & Technology
  • Innovation
  • Connection to Purpose
  • Sustainability

What information do I receive when I purchase the survey?

You’ll receive a Survey Toolkit that includes everything you need: your survey link, step-by-step instructions, comms and email templates to communicate with your people about the survey, and marketing materials such as a participant badge, social media graphics and content.

How long do we have to complete the survey?

We recommend giving your people 14 days to complete the survey and all surveys must be completed (with a minimum of 60% employee participation) before the close date of 16th May 2025.

How long does it take to complete the survey?

It takes between 8-10 minutes to complete.

If I buy the survey, when do I need to complete it?

The final deadline to submit your survey is 16th May 2025.

When will I receive my dashboard?

You’ll get access to your live dashboard within 5 working days after you start the survey. This is to ensure enough data has been captured to maintain confidentiality in the responses.

Who can see my organisation’s results?

Only you will have access to your own organisation’s results. BPTW uses the data only in aggregate form to create benchmarks and determine the shortlist, finalists, and winners.

How confidential is the survey?

The survey is confidential, and you only see aggregated data. BPTW only uses aggregated results in compiling Dashboards and Benchmarking.

How do we qualify for the Awards?

The threshold for being selected for the shortlist will be determined by the aggregated results of the Annual Survey and shortlisted organisations will be invited to enter the Awards. A minimum of 60% of your workforce must complete the survey to qualify for the Awards.

How are the Awards finalists and winners chosen?

Your survey results and Awards submissions are used to decide the finalists and winners by our selected expert panel of judges. You can read more about our Awards process and judges bestplacestowork.nz/awards.

Do we include overseas employees?

No, the BPTW survey is for New Zealand-based employees only. However, if you subscribe to our Pulse Survey model, you can extend the Pulse Surveys to your global team.

What are the Pulse Surveys?

Pulse Surveys are an excellent way to spot-check progress and track improvements within your employee experience initiatives, ensuring continuous engagement and growth. They have been designed to complement the BPTW Annual Survey and you can run up to two Pulse Surveys throughout the year at times that suit you. You can also add up to two customised questions per survey. 

Pulse Surveys are purely for your organisation and are ideal for staying proactive and gaining real-time insights between your survey submissions. They aren’t benchmarked against other organisations and do not form part of entry to the awards.