Every question we ask

Published in full, before you agree to anything. PRC Workforce Reach Audit.

This is the whole instrument. No employer sees an individual answer, and no question in it screens anybody for a condition. If anything here would not sit well with your workforce, better to know now than after it has gone out.

6. Every question we ask, in full

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

How the work has been going, previous two weeks, scored 1 to 10

1 Output quality

2 Decision confidence

3 Focus and concentration

4 Presence in meetings

5 Energy management

6 Reset between demands

7 Perceived operational capacity

8 In the last four weeks, how many whole working days did you miss, for any reason? None / 1 / 2 to 3 / 4 to 5 / 6 or more

Whether the provision reaches you

9 In the last twelve months, did you use any of the support your employer provides? Yes / No / I did not know what was available

10 Asked only of those answering No or I did not know. Which of these is closest to the main reason? One choice.
I did not know it existed / I knew it existed but not how to start / I did not think my situation counted as serious enough / I was concerned it would change how I am seen at work / I was not confident a record of it would stay private / I did not want to have to tell anyone at work to get it / I could not find the time / I tried it before and it did not suit me / I would rather deal with things myself / I have not needed it

11 If something outside work started affecting your work, how likely would you be to use the support your employer provides? 1 to 10

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

13 If your work output dropped for reasons outside work, how comfortable would you be raising it with your line manager? 1 to 10

Whether people can say they are under it, scored 1 to 10

14 If I made a mistake here, it would be held against me

15 I can raise a difficult problem here without it counting against me

16 I could say I was working at less than full capacity without it affecting how I am treated

17 Asking for help here is straightforward

Load and control

18 Over the last two weeks, how heavy were the demands on you at work? 1 to 10

19 Over the last two weeks, how much control did you have over how and when you did your work? 1 to 10

20 In the last two weeks, how often was work still on your mind outside working hours? Never / Rarely / Some days / Most days / Every day

Three things about your working situation

21 How long have you worked here? Under 1 year / 1 to 3 / 4 to 10 / More than 10

22 Do you have people reporting to you? Yes / No

23 How do you mostly work? On site / Hybrid / Mostly remote / Shift or field based

24 Optional. Anything else that put you off using the support? Tick as many as apply, or none.

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. Group figures for the whole organisation. Three cuts and no others: length of service, whether somebody manages people, and how they work. Each cut is reported one at a time and never crossed with another, because crossing two or three produces groups small enough to point at a person even when each one on its own does not.

Floors. No figures at all below thirty replies. No cut reported where either side is below thirty. Nothing shown below five in any cell.

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