The 12 questions from the Gallup Q12 Employee Engagement Survey are a quick and easy way to find out how engaged your employees are at work. Employees indicate their feelings and opinions on a scale from 1 to 5, helping you to gather insight into employee motivation and productivity.

Gallup keeps all information directly collected confidential, and will use the information only for the particular purpose stated at the point of collection.

It is Expensive For all of the helpful tips and actionable advice, the pricing structure involved leaves a little to be desired. At a flat $15 per survey, it is discouraging for larger firms to bother once, let alone do regular pulse checks. To run monthly surveys for 100 employees for a year would cost $18,000.

The average mean for Gallup's 12 Question Survey is about 4.02, so if your total score is above 48, it's considered a good score.