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Employee lifecycle template

Layoff aftermath check-in

Hear from the people who stayed, while you can still act on it.

5 questionsAbout 2 minutesScaleSingle choiceOpen text

The questions your people will see

Exactly as written in the template. Everything is editable once it is open in the builder.

  • 1.How much do you trust leadership to be straight with you about what happens next?

    Scale
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5
    Not at allCompletely
  • 2.How clear was the explanation for the changes?

    Single choice
    • Very clear
    • Mostly clear
    • Somewhat unclear
    • Not clear at all
  • 3.How has your workload changed?

    Single choice
    • A lot heavier
    • Somewhat heavier
    • About the same
    • Lighter
    • Too early to tell
  • 4.How likely are you to still be here in a year?

    Scale
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5
    Very unlikelyVery likely
  • 5.What do you want leadership to know right now?

    Open text
    A written answer, up to 2000 characters

    Please avoid naming individuals.

Why these questions

The open question at the end is the point of this one. The four closed questions in front of it exist to give it a frame and to give you something you can chart across a second wave, because trust and intent to stay are the two numbers that move after a layoff and the two nobody measures. People answering this have every reason to doubt the promise of anonymity, which is why the respondent screen tells them what leadership will see before the first question rather than after the last.

Results unlock at 3 responses

Nobody sees any answers to this poll, you included, until 3 people have responded. Below that, an individual answer could be traced back to the person who wrote it, so the results stay sealed. Worth knowing before you send it to a team of two.

How the anonymity works

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