The audit questions

All 24, sent to you before you sign anything.

Your HR team, your data protection lead and your staff reps can read every question before anything goes out to staff. If a question would not sit well with your workforce, better to know before you agree than after.

To get them: email jon.cull@prcworkforce.com with your organisation's name, or book 30 minutes with Jon. You get the full question set with the audit agreement and the data terms.

What the questions cover

Twenty four questions. About five minutes. Every answer is a score or a choice from a list. There is nothing to type anywhere, because written comments identify people.

How your own work has been going, and how many working days were missed

Whether people have used the support you offer, kind by kind, named the way your staff know it

For those who used none of it, the main reason why

Whether people would use it, and whether they would know how to start

Whether people can speak up here without it counting against them

How heavy the work is, and how much say people have over it

Whether anything outside work has made the job harder, without asking what

Three things about each person's working situation, used only for the breakdowns below

Two of the questions, word for word

If you wanted to use it tomorrow, would you know how to start?
Yes / Roughly / No

Asking for help here is straightforward.
Scored 1 to 10

How people are invited

Your organisation sends the invitation and two reminders from its own email. PRC Workforce writes them. Everyone gets the same link and answers on their own phone or computer, with nothing to download and no account to create. PRC Workforce never receives a staff list or any email address.

After the last question

The final screen shows each person the support your organisation offers, by the names your staff know, and a short list of free national services: Citizens Advice, MoneyHelper, Carers UK and Samaritans. It records nothing. Nobody is told who looked at it.

What is collected, and what is not

Not collected at any point. Names. Email addresses against answers. Staff numbers. Job titles. Departments. Free text of any kind.

Reported. Figures for the whole organisation, everybody added together. Those totals are then broken down three ways and no others: how long people have worked for you, whether they manage anybody, and how they work. Each breakdown is reported on its own and never combined with another, because combining two or three makes groups small enough to point at a person even when neither does on its own.

Floors. Nothing is reported at all below thirty replies. A breakdown is only shown when every group in it has at least thirty replies. How people work is shown as desk-based (on site, hybrid or remote) against shift or field based. How long people have been with you is shown as under one year against one year or more or, if either side is short, under three years against three years or more. The organisation can choose more than ten years instead. The four groups of either question are shown separately only when each one reaches thirty. Only one dividing line is ever printed for each question, so no small group can be worked out by subtracting one figure from another. No figure that stands for fewer than five people is printed. In a smaller audit, expect whole-organisation figures only.

See what the finished report looks like: read a specimen report in full. Method and reporting floors: due diligence.