ScalingEmerging Pattern
Survey employees on whether their daily work connects to company success
The most important employee satisfaction metric is whether people feel a direct relationship between their daily work and company success. Negative responses indicate either overstaffing (people doing busy work) or weak manager communication of vision.
When to use
During rapid growth; every 6 months to track organizational health
Don't do this
Not measuring employee connection to impact; assuming engagement equals feeling impactful; managers not owning the company vision
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Stripeby Claire Hughes Johnson
Surveys workforce every 6 months with the key question 'Do I feel a direct relationship between the work I do every day and the success of the company?'
Result:Can diagnose whether overstaffing or weak manager communication is causing disconnection from impact
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