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This employee pulse survey template helps you check your team’s workload, priorities, and support over the past two weeks. Use its six questions for a focused, recurring check-in, then choose an action based on the feedback. Adapt the example and create your survey with SurveyLegend.

When to Send an Employee Pulse Survey

Use this example for a focused, recurring team check-in. The questions cover the past two weeks, so choose a schedule that gives you time to review feedback and respond before the next round. If you need to explore more of the ongoing employee experience, consider SurveyLegend’s employee engagement survey template.

6 Questions for Your Next Team Check-In

The first four questions cover workload, priorities, access to support, and overall feelings about work. Two open-ended questions ask what helped and what would make the next two weeks better. Keep those purposes clear when adapting the survey: every question should help you identify an issue, preserve a useful practice, or choose a next step.

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Employee Pulse Survey

01 Over the past two weeks, how manageable has your workload been?

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02 Over the past two weeks, how clear have your work priorities been?

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03 Over the past two weeks, how easy has it been to get the support you needed?

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04 Overall, how have you felt about your work over the past two weeks?

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05 What has helped you most at work over the past two weeks?

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06 What is one change that would help you in the next two weeks?

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Customize the Employee Pulse Survey

Keep the same two-week reference period when comparing results from one round to the next. Adjust the schedule if your team needs a different rhythm, but make that change clear. Keep core wording and answer scales stable. Add an occasional topic only when you have a specific decision to make.

Choose the next survey date before sending this one. If you change to a monthly schedule, update every reference to “the past two weeks” and “the next two weeks” together. Treat that as a new comparison period. Keep individual performance discussions separate from this team feedback survey so employees understand what their answers will be used for.

Printable employee pulse survey template

Use this printable employee pulse survey template to collect answers from people who prefer paper or are less comfortable with online forms. Offer a paper check-in to team members who do not regularly use a work device or prefer to write their feedback.

Download the PDF, print the 6-question questionnaire, and provide copies for people to complete by hand. It includes the same core questions as the online template, with space for written answers.

Online or on paper, SurveyLegend helps you give your audience a way to respond that works for them.

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Create an employee pulse survey in SurveyLegend with questions about workload, priorities, support, and your team's past two weeks.

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Choose an Action Before the Next Check-In

Review workload, priorities, and support separately. If priorities are clear but workload feels unmanageable, investigate the amount of work and available capacity. If priorities are unclear, review how tasks are assigned and communicated. Compare answer distributions and response counts across rounds, and read comments for context. Then share the action you plan to take and when the team can expect an update. Changes in who responds can affect the results, so avoid treating every score movement as a change across the whole team.

For example, if workload feedback points to too many simultaneous assignments, agree which task can wait and who can reassign it. In the next round, review the workload answers and comments again. Tell the team what you changed even when the next result is mixed.

Frequently asked questions about employee pulse surveys

How many questions should a pulse survey have?

Include only questions your team can act on. This example contains six. You can shorten it further if fewer questions answer your current needs.

Does a pulse survey replace an engagement survey?

A pulse survey checks a focused set of issues regularly. A broader engagement survey explores more of the employee experience. Choose the format that matches the decision you need to make.

What if very few employees respond?

Avoid drawing a conclusion about the whole team. Check whether the purpose was clear and whether people had a reasonable opportunity to respond. Keep small-group feedback private.

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Create a focused team check-in with SurveyLegend. Use these six questions as your starting point, keep the two-week reference period clear, and decide who will review the feedback before you share the survey.

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