The PERMA survey measures the wellbeing of your employees across five dimensions:
- Positive Emotion
- Engagement
- Relationships
- Meaning
- Accomplishment
It gives you a fuller picture than a mood check-in on its own, because it asks about different parts of working life rather than how today felt.
Launch it
Go to the survey section of your admin dashboard and select PERMA under Create new survey.
Pick your moment
Run it when you want to assess the overall wellbeing of your employees — after a major organisational change, at the end of a quarter, or during annual reviews. Running it every six months lets you see patterns over time rather than a single snapshot.
Tell your team
Let people know it is coming, by email, in a team meeting, or through the internal messaging in the HR Portal. Say what the survey is for and encourage people to take part — a survey nobody was expecting gets fewer answers and worse ones.
Read the results
You get insight into all five wellbeing dimensions, which you can use to shape your HR strategies around employee satisfaction, productivity and retention. Employees can view their own results after completing the survey, so it is useful to them as well as to you.
What employees see
On their side, PERMA sits under Surveys & Polls and is described as a science-based check-in. It takes a few minutes, and they can view their results afterwards. In the mobile app, PERMA also appears as a task in the Next Steps checklist for new joiners, so many people will already have met it.
Questions about setting one up? Email help@getchoys.com.