Benefits Think School’s in, surveys out: Summer best time for employee surveys

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Stop the presses! If you were planning to roll out an employee survey to coincide with this fall’s open enrollment season, you may want to hold off, survey results show.

Turns out, summer is the hottest time to conduct employee surveys to get the best participation rates, according to HR Solutions Inc. The firm’s examination of employee survey participation rates — focusing on survey methodology, company size and month of survey administration —  found that June (79%) and July (81%) have the highest participation rates; lowest participation rates occur in February (71%) and September (72%).


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