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Culture Amp

Score8.8 out of 10

64 Reviews and Ratings

What is Culture Amp?

Culture Amp is an employee engagement software offering with functionalities such as employee pulse survey, onboarding feedback collection, and analysis of employee feedback.

Culture Amp Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our use case was an engagement survey and it wasn't really a business problem per se, but we want to grow and we know team member engagement is at the heart of growth and so we wanted to take a baseline inaugural employee engagement survey.

Pros

  • So once our employees took the survey, it was incredibly easy to read the results, mine the data, break it out by any area where we had at least five respondents. So the individual answers were confidential, but we could roll up and get a really good sense for different departments.

Cons

  • So I think that the integration was a little bit challenging and I think that could have been solved with a different level of maybe more concierge customer service. So rather than telling us how to use the software to address each issue, actually sharing screens going side by side and either helping us do that or do it for us.

Return on Investment

  • This has helped our business objectives. It's difficult to measure because we have had less turnover and it's one of many things that we did, but I do believe that giving our employees a voice, listening to what they had to say and then using the software also gives you recommendations for different strategies depending on what the engagement issues are and using those strategies. We have consistently shown our team members that we listen to what they have to say, their voice matters, and then we take action and it's been very powerful.

Usability

Culture Amp is great for your culture (if you have a culture)

Pros

  • Daily tools to learn new skills
  • 1-on-1 meetings
  • Providing feedback to colleagues
  • The daily reminders are excellent

Cons

  • For some reason, you need to sign in every time you reopen the browser
  • It would be nice to have a notebook section where I can follow up on the courses I'm undergoing and the tools I'm learning, and to be able to share that progress with colleagues and on social media
  • If it incorporates all the organization, Culture Amp could offer a culture map so strategic improvements can be made for the organization

Most Important Features

  • 1-on-1 meetings
  • Providing feedback
  • Introspections

Return on Investment

  • So far, positive; great collaborator loyalty
  • A notable increase in engagement and initiative
  • Better communication between collaborators and across the organizational hierarchy
  • Greatly diminished friction

Other Software Used

Basecamp, Notion, BugHerd

HIGHLY recommend! Culture Amp gives a detailed understanding of culture, while being simple and driving action

Pros

  • Customizable questions and templates - everything can be customized to fit my demographics I want to see, and our core values/culture.
  • People science backed questions in all areas of staff engagement, DEI, team/individual effectiveness, onboarding, exit surveys, etc. Culture Amp is one service that provides so much benefit to all aspects of the talent cycle.
  • Easy to use platform where I can build surveys, customize them, and so many analytical tools where I can easily see my results, the impact of each question that goes beyond just high/low. Real science that tells me what is most driving/impacting staff engagement and some ideas for how to fix it.

Cons

  • It does take a lot of time to launch, analyze and act on an engagement survey. The tools are easy to use, and I actually think the time I spend on it is very useful for my company. But if someone doesn't have much time to give to this I can see it being overwhelming.

Return on Investment

  • Culture Amp engagement results have impacted our organization wide priorities around culture/staffing.
  • The survey has allowed us to get much more specific in what aspects of our culture need to be improved.

Alternatives Considered

Gallup Access

Other Software Used

Salesforce CMS

Culture Amp is easy to use and gets you quick action items to implement now!

Pros

  • Ease of use
  • Easy to administer
  • Easy to integrate

Cons

  • Difficult to account for dotted-line reporting
  • Difficult to track when someone's manager changed
  • Admin interface is sometimes clunky to use

Return on Investment

  • Honest employee feedback
  • Useful feedback for managers
  • Shows gaps where the company can do better

Other Software Used

Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Pingboard

Culture Amp has served every need we have had

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Culture amp allows us to provide employees peace of mind when submitting their feedback on surveys. This data is also very easy to track, and pull analytics from. It is a system designed to be analyzed and to have the data pulled from, so the trends are extremely straightforward to analyze.
The system gives clear information to employees that their data will be protected. The information that we can pull from the system allows us to maintain employee confidentiality while still being able to view the data at every level to analyze the different areas of the business and manager levels.

Pros

  • Employee confidentiality
  • Creation of reports
  • Ability to view data at many levels

Cons

  • Hierarchy settings can be difficult to navigate
  • Some reports and filtering can be tough to translate
  • The system itself needs someone who is familiar with it, it is not as straightforward to someone who is looking at it for the first time.

Return on Investment

  • We are able to identify the top areas in which turnover is likely to occur
  • We are able to analyze managers from a down-up model
  • We are able to identify where investments in employees are most necessary