Employee Readiness Surveys

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  • Updated January 30, 2025
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    Summary of Employee Readiness Surveys

    The ServiceNow® Employee Readiness Surveys application enables organizations to assess their workforce's readiness to return to the workplace by distributing customizable surveys. It integrates with the Emergency Outreach application to send surveys via outreach notifications and is part of the broader Safe Workplace suite designed to help organizations resume operations safely after emergencies or pandemics such as COVID-19.

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    Key Features

    • Survey Customization: Check-in administrators can view, edit, and add new surveys tailored to different regions or specific concerns.
    • Integration with Emergency Outreach: Surveys are sent to targeted audiences using notification methods defined in Emergency Outreach.
    • Guided Setup: The Safe Workplace guided setup assists in configuring Safe Workplace and Emergency Response Management applications efficiently.
    • Compatibility with Safe Workplace Suite: Works alongside other Safe Workplace applications such as Employee Health Screening, Explore Workplace Core, and Workplace Personal Protective Equipment Inventory Management to provide a comprehensive approach to workforce and workplace safety.
    • Domain Separation Support: Surveys are managed through the Survey Management application with support for domain separation, ensuring secure and organized survey administration.
    • Installation Options: Available for commercial on-premise, federal hosted, and federal on-premise environments with specific instructions for each deployment type.

    Key Considerations for Customers

    • Compliance Responsibility: Organizations must ensure that surveys and any provided template language comply with applicable laws and regulations, including data protection and employment laws. ServiceNow does not provide legal advice or guarantee compliance.
    • Government Use: Government agencies can use the application free of charge for a limited or extended period but must confirm ethical and legal permissions internally. Agencies remain responsible for legal compliance and tailoring templates accordingly.
    • Roles Required: Installation requires the admin role; survey configuration and notification management require snimtcheckin.checkinadmin or surveyadmin roles.
    • Notification Configuration: Administrators can add or modify notifications related to Employee Readiness Surveys to ensure targeted and effective communication.

    Practical Benefits

    By using Employee Readiness Surveys, ServiceNow customers can efficiently gauge their workforce's preparedness to return to physical workspaces, address region-specific or organizational concerns, and maintain compliance with safety protocols. The application’s integration with Emergency Outreach and other Safe Workplace suite apps enables a coordinated and comprehensive approach to managing workplace health and safety during and after emergency situations.

    The ServiceNow® Employee Readiness Surveys application lets you evaluate the readiness of your workforce to return to the workplace by asking users to complete a survey.

    Employee Readiness Surveys is an application that you install to use with Emergency Outreach. For information about Emergency Outreach and how surveys are sent via outreach notifications, see Emergency Outreach.

    Employee Readiness Survey

    After you install the application, the check-in administrator for Emergency Outreach can view and edit the survey questions to suit your needs. New surveys can be added, for example, to evaluate users in different regions or address other concerns.

    The check-in administrator sends the surveys to targeted audiences using the Emergency Outreach notification methods.

    Use guided setup to implement Safe Workplace suite apps
    The Safe Workplace guided setup provides a sequence of tasks that help you configure the Safe Workplace and Emergency Response Management applications on your ServiceNow instance. To open the Safe Workplace guided setup, navigate to Guided Setup > Safe Workplace Guided Setup. For more information about using the guided setup interface, see Using guided setup.

    Use with other Safe Workplace suite applications

    Employee Readiness Surveys is part of a suite of ServiceNow® Safe Workplace suite applications. Use it with these other applications to help your organization prepare its workforce and workplaces to resume operations after emergencies and pandemics like COVID-19.

    All Safe Workplace suite applications are available in the ServiceNow Store.

    Safe Workplace suite for federal customers

    Federal customers using IL4 or FedRAMP environments will see the Safe Workplace suite applications ready and available to install on their nonproduction instances without having to make any special requests. Licenses are required to use Safe Workplace suite applications on production instances. Customers are responsible for configuring the apps to meet U.S. federal regulations and guidelines.

    Table 1. Installation instructions for self-hosted and federal environments
    Type Instructions

    Commercial on-premise

    Visit the ServiceNow® Store to download and install the application.

    Federal hosted

    See the Federal downloads for the Emergency Response Management and Safe Workplace suite apps [KB0030260] article in the Store Help Center for more information.

    Federal on-premise

    If you are a federal on-premise customer and you would like to install this application, reach out to your sales representative or open a Now Support or HIWAVE ticket. In the ticket, request to be routed to the SHOT team.

    See the Federal downloads for the Emergency Response Management and Safe Workplace suite apps [KB0030260] article in the Store Help Center for more information.

    On-premise

    See the Commercial downloads for the Emergency Response Management and Safe Workplace suite apps [KB0030258] article in the Store Help Center for more information.

    Domain separation for the Employee Readiness Surveys application

    Surveys are configured and managed through the Survey Management application on your ServiceNow instance. For information about how domain separation is supported, see Domain separation for Survey Management.