Employee engagement and performance for high-growth tech teams
In an industry as fast-paced as the world of tech, keeping on top of how you're team are doing can be a real challenge for many technology companies. This can jeopardise engagement and performance.
Get a handle of both with our simple weekly check-in.
Employee engagement and performance for high-growth tech teams
In an industry as fast-paced as the world of tech, keeping on top of how you're team are doing can be a real challenge for many technology companies. This can jeopardise engagement and performance.
Get a handle of both with our simple weekly check-in.
We work with some incredible tech companies around the globe including:
Tackling employee engagement challenges at progressive tech companies
With a relatively unique mix of challenges to face, there can be a lot of pressure on managers at tech companies to keep on top of employee engagement and improve productivity.
High staff turnover
Globally, the tech industry has one of the highest rates of employee attrition at around 13.2%, which is pretty extreme. Even Google, often lauded for their fantastic benefits packages and funky office spaces has an average employee career lifespan of only 1.1 years. Typical tenure at Apple is just shy of 24 months.
This can make keeping hold of top talent in tech a tricky task.
Keeping on top in times of high-growth
Tech companies often go through times of great success, meaning they can grow big, quick. This is great of course, but it can mean leaders go from knowing everyone's favourite sports team to not knowing half of their names.
The prevalence of remote work
Distributed work, telecommuting, working from home; call it what you will but the reality is the tech industry is a real champion of remote working practices.
While remote work has a huge range of benefits (we're BIG fans here at Weekly10) it can throw up some interesting challenges around engagement and wellbeing.
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” - Steve Jobs
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” - Steve Jobs
High staff turnover
Globally, the tech industry has one of the highest rates of employee attrition at around 13.2%, which is pretty extreme. Even Google, often lauded for their fantastic benefits packages and funky office spaces has an average employee career lifespan of only 1.1 years. Typical tenure at Apple is just shy of 24 months.
This can make keeping hold of top talent in tech a tricky task.
Keeping on top in times of high-growth
Tech companies often go through times of great success, meaning they can grow big, quick. This is great of course, but it can mean leaders go from knowing everyone's favourite sports team to not knowing half of their names.
The prevalence of remote work
Distributed work, telecommuting, working from home; call it what you will but the reality is the tech industry is a real champion of remote working practices.
While remote work has a huge range of benefits (we're BIG fans here at Weekly10) it can throw up some interesting challenges around engagement and wellbeing.
Employee engagement for the tech industry from Weekly10
The Weekly10 platform allows progressive tech businesses to measure, adjust, improve and monitor the engagement of their people through a simple, light-touch weekly check-in.
Honest, open and owned feedback on a regular cadence
One of the key pillars of great employee engagement is open, two-way feedback between managers and their teams. By default our employee check-in is not anonymous (you have flexibility to turn anonymity per question), all answers are shared directly with managers and our comments feature allows for a conversation on any key points.
With studies finding staff want more workplace feedback than they are getting - millennial workers expect feedback to happen weekly, Gen Z even more frequently - and the power of timely feedback in impacting behaviour and performance, we believe a weekly check-in is the correct approach for most tech companies.
However, with Weekly10 you have the flexibility to set a cadence that is right for your firm's needs. Our team of HR professionals, technologists and psychologists will help you setup a feedback cycle that is perfect for improving engagement within your teams.
Honest, open and owned feedback on a regular cadence
One of the key pillars of great employee engagement is open, two-way feedback between managers and their teams. By default our employee check-in is not anonymous (you have flexibility to turn anonymity per question), all answers are shared directly with managers and our comments feature allows for a conversation on any key points.
With studies finding staff want more workplace feedback than they are getting - millennial workers expect feedback to happen weekly, Gen Z even more frequently - and the power of timely feedback in impacting behaviour and performance, we believe a weekly check-in is the right approach for most tech organisations.
However, with Weekly10 you have the flexibility to set a cadence that is right for your firm's needs. Our team of HR professionals, technologists and psychologists will help you setup a feedback cycle that is perfect for improving engagement within your teams.
Question templates
Create your own check-in questions or borrow from our curated question sets. Each set has been built to focus in on a certain area of workplace culture by our team of 'People Scientists'.
Engagement analytics
Our AI-driven sentiment analysis provides you with a unique view on how engagement across your business is. Deep dive into individual teams, departments or locations to help pinpoint any engagement issues and benchmark what great looks like.
Encourage recognition
'Mentions' allow staff to shine a light on the great work being done around them that leadership may be missing. Unearth your hidden talent, build social links within the organisation and boost engagement.
Question templates
Create your own check-in questions or borrow from our curated question sets. Each set has been built to focus in on a certain area of workplace culture by our team of 'People Scientists'.
Engagement analytics
Our AI-driven sentiment analysis provides you with a unique view on how engagement across your business is. Deep dive into individual teams, departments or locations to help pinpoint any engagement issues and benchmark what great looks like.
Encourage recognition
'Mentions' allow staff to shine a light on the great work being done around them that leadership may be missing. Unearth your hidden talent, build social links within the organisation and boost engagement.
Try before you buy?
Our free 21-day trial is a great way to see how a weekly check-in could help improve engagement at your workplace.
Performance management for the tech sector from Weekly10
One of the beauties of our simple employee check-in is the rich data it provides for other people-focussed activities, performance being one of the big ones. Use our goal/OKR-setting, performance review and 1:1 features to power up your approach to performance.
Set and achieve with SMART goals or OKRs
No matter your performance management framework of choice, Weekly10 can be configured to help your managers and leaders track performance across all high-level targets. As part of the weekly check-in, employees not only answer questions targeting key engagement and wellbeing issues but also can provide quick and vital updates on any set goals.
Set and achieve with SMART goals or OKRs
No matter your performance management framework of choice, Weekly10 can be configured to help your managers and leaders track performance across all high-level targets. As part of the weekly check-in, employees not only answer questions targeting key engagement and wellbeing issues but also can provide quick and vital updates on any set goals.
Performance reviews
8/10 employees say traditional performance reviews don't work. Shake things up with a review that is not only based on real-evidence collected weekly as part of the check-in but only takes a few clicks to create, meaning more time for a meaningful & targetted conversation.
360° feedback
Boost your review process by collecting feedback from those outside of your company. Gather the thoughts of suppliers, strategic partners and even users with the simple click of a button.
Performance analytics
Track and analyse the progression of key targets, see where organisational objectives are bottle-necking and 'pass-up' great performance for improved employee visibility.
Performance reviews
8/10 employees say traditional performance reviews don't work. Shake things up with a review that is not only based on real-evidence collected weekly as part of the check-in but only takes a few clicks to create, meaning more time for a meaningful & targetted conversation.
360° feedback
Boost your review process by collecting feedback from those outside of your company. Gather the thoughts of suppliers, strategic partners and even users with the simple click of a button.
Performance analytics
Track and analyse the progression of key targets, see where organisational objectives are bottle-necking and 'pass-up' great performance for improved employee visibility.
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