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Segmenting your results can be tremendously useful in situations where you want to use population demographics to compare results across different attributes such as: gender, age, departments, office location, salary level, seniority at company, and more.

Measuring trends over time is a crucial part of running any recurring poll or survey – it helps to uncover insights into the effectiveness of your initiative, or the sentiments of your team over time, that you wouldn't be able to see from a single view. We're so thrilled to announce that charts and trend history are back and even better than ever before.

Whether you wanted to export all of your one-off survey results for an aggregated view, or wanted to analyze your organizational health segmented by departments, or wanted to create your own pivot charts of your recurring survey trends over time, now you can with CSV exports – where you set the limits to what you can uncover with your data.

Almost a year after the announcement of the Hangouts Chat beta that a targeted set of G Suite users had access to, we're so thrilled to announce that Polly has teamed up with the folks over at G Suite to bring forth a simple polling integration for the official public launch of Hangouts Chat.

If you're not already initiating some of your simple, everyday workflows in Slack – now's the time to do so. Instead of having all of your asynchronous workflows live in isolation, they can live in a shared collaborative space where all your best work happens. We've handpicked five workflows you should be measuring in 2018 that are either used often by our customers, we use ourselves, or see customers use to gain insight into their organizational health.

Today’s business leaders understand that every organization has its own culture. Yet, many may view culture as an indefinable force that is difficult to control. This causes some companies to miss out on the benefits that fostering a positive culture can offer. The truth is, your company can take tangible steps to build a strong corporate culture that increases employee motivation. If you do, you are likely to see a clear, positive impact on employee productivity and business profitability.

Using surveys to solicit employee feedback has long been a part of sound management practice, but the way surveys are conducted has changed over time as workplace communication and the state of survey technology have changed. Until recently, email was the dominant communication tool in the workplace, and online survey tools represented the predominant method of feedback collection. Today, however, email has given way to more efficient cloud-based communication and collaboration tools such as Slack and Microsoft Teams, and new survey technology has also emerged that is better suited to a cloud-based paradigm. Here are some best practices for conducting, sharing, and discussing employee survey results in today’s workplace using current technology.

We had mentioned in the previous post with the infographic that there's work to be done to improve employee communication. But where exactly do you start?

If you're not fully convinced that employee communication matters to your organization, take a look at the following 8 statistics in the infographic below. In the next post, we'll discuss exactly how you can adapt your communications to be more interactive, engaging, and valuable to not only your organization's morale, but your bottom line as well.

Good leaders know the value of their employees’ insights and opinions. By asking specific questions, they gain priceless knowledge that can alter the shape of a company’s culture, the morale of their team, and the engagement each employee has regarding their role in the company.