The employee survey tool that saves time (and money)

People Element is a Denver-based employee survey platform with 30+ years of experience helping HR teams improve engagement, retention, and workforce culture. The company combines intuitive employee survey software with hands-on guidance from HR and organizational psychology experts.

Unlike basic DIY tools or bloated employee experience platforms, People Element offers a powerful employee survey tool with support from real specialists, helping you design surveys, interpret results, build presentations, and take meaningful action. This balance of simplicity and partnership is why People Element is consistently ranked among HR’s top employee survey providers and considered the best value employee surveying platform.

People Element uses a simple, all-inclusive pricing model that gives you unlimited surveys, unlimited users, and unlimited reporting for one straightforward price. There are no hidden modules, per-survey fees, or upsells, making it one of the best values for mid-sized organizations wanting enterprise-grade insights without enterprise-level pricing.

Support is included for your entire team, and role-based access ensures managers only see data for their direct reports. This makes it easy to scale your program across hundreds of managers without adding new licenses.

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Yes. People Element provides ready-to-use survey templates for every stage of the employee journey, including onboarding, engagement, pulse, stay, DEI, and exit surveys. Each template and question is built using proven I/O psychology research and designed to generate actionable insights.

You can fully customize any survey using branching, logic, or additional questions. Surveys translate into 100+ languages in real time, ensuring accessibility for large and diverse workforces.

People Element automates employee surveys across your entire workforce lifecycle. Surveys can trigger automatically when someone is hired or exits the company, saving HR teams hours of manual administration.

AI tools analyze open-text feedback, highlight key drivers of engagement, summarize sentiment, and recommend action items. With easy HRIS integrations, organizations can run continuous listening programs without spreadsheets or manual tracking. The platform even flags potential compliance or litigation risks in feedback so HR can act quickly.

People Element uses AI to quickly surface insights from employee feedback so HR leaders can understand workforce sentiment faster. 

The platform analyzes open-text comments to identify themes, summarizes sentiment, and highlights key drivers of engagement through its Engagement Index.

Generative AI summaries make it easy to digest complex data, helping leaders spot trends and take informed action without reviewing lengthy reports.

People Element includes robust real-time analytics such as dashboards, heatmaps, hotspot reports, and customizable drill-downs by department, hierarchy, or demographic group.

Reports can be exported to PDF, Excel, or PowerPoint for easy sharing with executives. You can trend data historically, benchmark against global or industry norms, and combine multiple survey types to understand your complete employee lifecycle. The platform also includes action-planning tools with recommended steps to improve engagement and retention.

Yes. People Element is one of HR’s leading third-party exit interview companies, offering live outbound calling.

Having an unbiased third party manage exit interviews is actually an HR best practice, as employees tend to share more candid insights with a neutral interviewer, giving organizations clearer data about turnover drivers.

The interview data is combined with survey analytics to reveal patterns, risks, and improvement opportunities that internal teams may overlook.

No. Implementation of People Element is included at no extra cost. Every client is paired with a People Element expert who guides setup, helps configure surveys and reporting, and provides hands-on coaching.

While People Element setup is intentionally quick and easy, your team receives training for every step of the rollout so you can launch surveys with confidence.

Most organizations launch their first People Element survey within days of getting started. People Element is intentionally designed as a streamlined platform, without the heavy configuration or long training cycles required by large employee experience tools.

HR teams can upload data manually, via SFTP, or through HRIS integration. You can easily set up your own naming conventions, hierarchies, and permissions, and staff can begin using the platform almost immediately due to its intuitive design.

People Element provides all US-based support through live chat, email, and phone, with average chat response times under a minute and email responses under 5 minutes. Clients also receive a dedicated Success Manager and full access to a searchable resource library with videos and step-by-step guides.

The team can even deliver executive presentations of your results, ensuring HR leaders have expert-backed insights to share with stakeholders.