Improve retention with our employee exit surveys
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Reduce employee turnover with our tailored employee exit surveys
Gathering feedback from leavers is essential if you are to identify how to reduce employee turnover, improve employee retention and reduce the costs associated with employee turnover.
Our employee exit surveys are the most cost-effective solution.
Why not use face to face exit interviews?
Many organisations feel that exit interviews are the best way to gather feedback from leavers, but we find that there are four common challenges with exit interviews that limit their impact:
Exit interviews take up a lot of resource
- Exit interviews need someone to organise them.
- The exit interview itself typically takes around an hour to conduct.
Exit interviews are not anonymous
- In our experience, many employees will turn down the offer of a face to face, or telephone exit interview because they know that what they say can be attributed to them and they fear that there will be negative consequences as a result.
Exit interviews do not generate consistent feedback
- Exit interviews are often conducted by different people so there is always variation in how they are run.
- Even where you have a standard set of exit interview questions, the nature of interviews means that the output is likely to vary significantly.
- The person conducting the exit interview also needs to be skilled.
Exit interview data is difficult to analyse
- Even where exit interview data is captured in a consistent format, it is likely to be captured manually, which makes collating and analysing the data extremely time-intensive, slow and takes up even more resource.
- In fact, we usually find that where organisations are carrying out exit interviews the data is simply ‘filed’ and never really analysed.
Online employee exit surveys are the solution
Online exit surveys are much more effective than traditional exit interviews making them the best method for gathering feedback from leavers.
Exit surveys take up a lot less time and resource.
- There is nothing to arrange with an exit survey.
- All that is needed is to send an email to each leaver.
Exit surveys can be totally anonymous
- Exit surveys do not require people to provide their name.
- All your leaver data can be aggregated so no single individual's responses can be identified.
Exit surveys generate much more consistent and higher quality data.
- The design of an exit survey makes it much more quantifiable.
- As every leaver answers the same questions, in the same way, the data is much more consistent and easier to analyse.
- The data is captured electronically so no need to do any manual analysis.
Exit survey design and administration
We help you get your employee exit survey up and running quickly and cost-effectively.
Tailored exit survey design
Whilst we can easily give you an off-the-shelf solution, we believe that the content of your employee pulse surveys is most effective when it is designed to meet the specific needs of your organisation.
We we will work with you to design your pulse survey, ensuring the content and look and feel suits your business and delivers what you want to achieve.
Ours is not a self-service solution
We know that you’re mega busy. We also know that there is lots involved in designing and deploying an effective exit survey so we will support you with our expertise and save you time by managing the whole process for you.
You might feel you want the freedom that a self-serve solution offers, but our responsiveness means that we can get something live for you as quickly as doing it yourself. Why do the work yourself when we can do it for you?
Easy to complete
Your exit survey will be deployed through our own highly secure employee survey platform.
We issue exit survey invites via email or SMS, but we also use QR code where you don't have email addresses or where staff are not deskbound.
Our exit surveys are fully mobile optimised making it easy for people to complete them whenever and wherever they want.
Just click on the QR code or point your phone’s camera at it to view a demo survey….
Intuitive analysis and reporting
Even where businesses do collect data from leavers, many don’t systematically analyse it.
Pulling data together and analysing it takes time and resource and, let’s face it, most of us have other more pressing things to do.
Our employee exit survey platform was built specifically for exit surveys. This means the inbuilt analysis tools are all relevant to what you want to see through our web-based reporting dashboard.
And, unlike other dashboarding software, there is no configuration needed to make it work. It also means you don’t need to involve IT!
Real-time results
The real power of our employee exit survey platform is that it makes accessing your exit survey data extremely easy.
You can view your exit survey data in real time through our reporting dashboard allowing you to quickly identify key insights and share those with your stakeholders.
Intuitive analysis
Playing around with your exit survey data is highly intuitive and makes slicing and dicing your data significantly quicker and easier than using Excel or other business intelligence software.
Bring your exit survey data to life
With multiple charting options and preset analysis already built in, our reporting dashboard really helps bring your exit survey data to life allowing you to quickly identify key insights and share those with your stakeholders.
We can even import any historical employee experience survey data you might have.
Proactive survey reporting
We will send you a summary report of your exit survey results every quarter.
The report will be in pdf format and will show your survey results by quarter.
The report will provide:
- an overview of survey scores by theme
- individual question scores
- heatmaps showing variations in themes based on demographics such as gender, ethnicity etc.
- open comments
From insight to action
Data means nothing if you don’t take action as a result.
Our employee exit surveys will help you move from insight to action.
User access
We can provide your users access to their own survey dataset(s) so they can access and play around with all of their exit survey data. This greatly increases the level of ownership and accountability for doing something with the survey data. Users are often the HR team, but they can also be operational managers. We provide familiarisation training to users, supported by 'how to' videos and ongoing support.
Flexible reporting
Creating reports is really quick and easy through our reporting dashboard - whatever you see on screen you can add to a report. Users can create as many ad-hoc exit survey reports as they want, as often as they want, for no extra cost.
Inbuilt action planning
Our exit survey reporting dashboard has comprehensive action planning functionality built in making it easy to define actions, assign responsibility and monitor progress.
We have been working with Realworld for 6 years now and have accumulated a rich bank of data which allows us to track trends over time. Realworld have always been responsive, seeking to understand what we are looking to achieve and suggesting minor amendments to the survey set up or reporting which would meet those requirements. We now have a sophisticated survey providing a rich set of results which informs actions for the year ahead which are discussed at Board level.
Sharon Bell, Chief Executive, Services For Education

The whole team at Realworld offer an intelligent insight into our employee experience. Since working with Realworld our employee engagement has risen and we have been able to make positive changes within the workplace which mirrors our employee voice. The data/feedback Realworld has provided us has enriched our business performance. I would recommend them wholeheartedly.
Carlie O'Hare, Retention Lead, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

Get in touch to see how we can help
Try as hard as we might there are bound to be questions that you might still have so feel free to get in touch and see how we can help.