Employee insight​that makes sense​

Two are standardised, best-practice templates (Employee Engagement and Internal Communication) that come with Ipsos Global EX benchmarks and a standard interpreted report. The third is fully custom: we build a survey around your objectives from a library of 400+ validated questions. The templates give you speed and benchmarks; the custom route gives you flexibility.

You're guided by an Ipsos EX expert throughout. With either template you get 2 hours of expert time: a one-hour kick-off to define your organisation and your intro message, and a one-hour debrief at the end to walk you through your final report, benchmarks and recommendations. With a custom survey, you get a one-hour session with a researcher at the start to take your brief.

Two groups get the most from it. Small and medium organisations that want the depth of a large-scale listening programme without the enterprise price tag or a dedicated internal team, and teams or departments inside larger enterprises that want to run a focused survey for their business unit, function or region.

A standardised, best-practice survey, results benchmarked against Ipsos' Global EX norms, and a standard interpreted report with recommendations. The Employee Engagement template helps you understand what drives engagement, where it's strong and what needs attention. The Internal Communication template assesses whether your communication is landing, resonating and building trust, and is grounded in the IC Index framework.

We shape the survey from your brief in the opening one-hour session. You then get a tailored selection of questions from the 400+ in the Ipsos EX Framework library, matched to your objectives. You also get a dashboard with every question charted, which you can export to native PowerPoint or PDF, plus respondent-level data in Excel, CSV or SPSS.

Benchmarks are a feature of the two standardised templates, because a fixed question set is what makes a like-for-like comparison possible. A custom survey gives you your own results, the full question library and a dashboard, but the templates are the route to standardised Global EX benchmarks.

Results are ready within 24 hours of the survey closing. That includes your report, an online dashboard to filter results, and your debrief with an EX specialist.

Three steps. First, a kick-off call with an Ipsos EX expert to agree your survey and timeline. Second, you receive anonymous survey links and a QR code to share across your organisation, with live tracking of your response rate. Third, within 24 hours of close you get your ready-to-share report and your debrief.

A score on its own doesn't tell you much. Is 72% good? Only a benchmark can answer that. Every result in the templates is measured against Ipsos' Global EX benchmarks of 3.6m+ employee responses, so each score becomes a verdict: a strength, a risk or a priority.

No. That's the core difference. EX Essentials writes the interpretation for you. Your report explains, in plain English, what each result means for your organisation and which drivers to prioritise next, and your debrief with an EX specialist walks you through it.

Yes. Staff complete the survey through anonymous links and a QR code. You can structure reporting across up to two levels of hierarchy, so you can see results by area without identifying individuals.

Your report is an editable, leadership-ready PowerPoint. With a custom survey, you can also export the dashboard to native PowerPoint or PDF, and download respondent-level data in Excel, CSV or SPSS.

It's Ipsos' employee experience framework, built on 15+ years of research and empirically validated with 5,000+ employees across 30+ industries. Its four components (business foundations, individual experiences, cultural experiences and employee outcomes) shape every question in the library.

Book a call for a free 30-minute demo with an Ipsos EX Specialist. We'll help you choose the right route and get you set up.