If you are a local council, university or library, go to the Commission for Gender Equality in the Public Sector’s website for your survey dates and other information.
Local councils, universities and libraries do the same People matter survey, but the Commission for Gender Equality in the Public Sector supports you to use it for gender equality reporting and action planning. This means the information on this webpage may not be applicable to you.
We will:
The People matter survey gives your employees a way to share feedback about their experience at work.
Survey results help your organisation to:
We will email your head of organisation and head of Human Resources and ask them to nominate your survey coordinator.
Your survey coordinator will be our main contact for all survey setup tasks.
Your organisation can include:
Check the main survey questions before creating custom questions so you do not repeat topics already covered.
Your organisation can set up a hierarchy if you want to receive results for different groups.
We only provide reporting for groups that receive at least 10 survey responses.
Check:
Let us know if anything needs to be fixed before the survey opens.
You can make final updates to your headcounts for your organisation and reporting groups.
We will use the final headcounts to set up your response rate dashboard.
Plan how you will:
We will provide promotional resources to support your communications.
If your reporting groups have changed since last year, you can tell us how you’d like to compare this year’s results to last year’s.
Share the survey link with employees.
Continue promoting the survey while it is open to encourage participation.
Use your response rate dashboard to track the response rate of your organisation and reporting groups.
We will release results to your organisation in May 2027.
You can access:
The 2027 questions will be available in December 2026.
Before you create your own custom questions, check the main survey questions to avoid asking about topics already covered in the core survey.
The survey includes protections for anonymity and independence.
You should refer your employees to the data collection statement and fact and myths for information about how we collect, use and protect their survey data.
If you need help, please fill in the contact form.