A nascent trend towards using everyday technology to capture employee views has been taken a step further by one marketing agency after it installed a ‘mood monitor’ to understand how its workers are feeling.
WAA, which was ranked number 81 in the Sunday Times’ 100 Best Small Companies to Work For listing this year, introduced the touch screen device as part of its on-going staff engagement programme.
The framed iPad, which bears the headline ‘How are you feeling today?’, displays a range of facial icons, each showing varying levels of happiness. As employees pass by the device throughout their working day, they can tap on the face that best reflects their mood at that time.
WAA’s HR business partner, Sarah Asprey, said: “The mood monitor is fun and quirky and provides a more informal way of helping us to assess staff morale on a daily basis, offering an alternative insight to our formal staff appraisals. As it is totally anonymous, staff also feel that they can be as honest as they like.”
The results from the mood monitor are collated on a weekly basis and the management team’s aim is to address any issues that are highlighted.
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great post
It’s refreshing to see that companies are taking more of a proactive approach to monitor and improve the enagagement of their employees. WAA have obviously found a quirky and modern way of doing this which fits in with their company culture and has been adopted by their employees happily. Their ranking in the 100 best small companies to work for proves that they are moving in the right direction when it comes to keeping employees motivated and connected with their work.
David Evans, commercial director at accessplanit, specialist in training administration software and training administration system.