by Caalie | Jul 15, 2026 | Culture, Governance, SurveyOptic
The NHS has raised the bar for workplace standards – and there are lessons for every sector Last week the NHS published its new Staff Standards. They set mandatory minimums across six areas staff identified as mattering the most: Supportive line management...
by Caalie | May 21, 2026 | Culture, Surveys
Spend enough time watching organisations and a pattern emerges: Two of them can look almost identical from the outside. They are in the same sector, a similar size, similar resources to draw on. They face similar challenges, run similar transformations. And yet one...
by Benjamin Ellis | Aug 28, 2025 | Announcements, Culture
Employee engagement and retention can’t be looked at in isolation. The latest CIPD report on the workforce in the UK, when set against ONS unemployment figures, reveals a picture that demands some attention. UK unemployment has levelled off after rising steadily for a...
by Caalie | Jan 22, 2025 | Announcements, Culture
A quick round up of what we’ve been seeing in recent months when it comes to employee surveys, and how we predict that will pan out during the year. The return of the 360 feedback survey The 360 Degree Feedback Survey first surfaced during the 1940’s as a way of...
by Paul Harding | Nov 8, 2024 | Culture, Product, SurveyOptic
In the SocialOptic product team, Kaizen is a word that crops up frequently. It is a compound of two Japanese words that together translate as “good change” or “improvement”. We have ambitious plans, but balance this with little and often...
by Paul Harding | Jul 17, 2024 | Culture, Product, SurveyOptic
Culture On a typically rainy day in England, we in the product team at SocialOptic have plenty to smile about! Our culture of continual improvement underpins the way we work, and we are always looking to improve our products. We do this by listening to our...
