The Workplace Experiences Survey is the primary opportunity for all faculty and staff to share feedback on their experiences of working at UBC.
Your feedback shapes our workplace
Faculty and staff feedback in the Workplace Experiences Survey (WES) is used to shape priorities at the university. The survey offers insights into the progress of efforts being made to ensure UBC is a diverse, inclusive, safe and vibrant workplace.
This comprehensive survey considers various workplace engagement topics, including leadership, inclusion, and career development. Survey results also support leaders, managers, and support offices with identifying areas of opportunity for improvement, both university-wide and at the unit level.
Past WES results
Over 6,300 faculty and staff participated in the Workplace Experiences Survey in November 2021. The report, as presented to the UBC community in February 2022, includes some of the following findings:
- The top influences on faculty and staff engagement include professional growth, inclusion and respect, UBC’s senior leadership, and health and wellbeing
- 84% of faculty and staff feel proud to tell others they work at UBC
- 77% of faculty and staff feel optimistic about the future of UBC
- 74% of faculty and staff feel engaged at UBC (up 3% from 2017)
View highlights from the WES 2021 results (PDF)
View the detailed insights report for UBC on the WES results and administration page (CWL required).
Survey administration and confidentiality
WES is administered through a third-party employee survey provider
To ensure confidentiality, UBC has engaged TalentMap, a third-party employee survey consultant located in Canada to collect and collate the information gathered in the survey on behalf of the University. TalentMap is a member of the Insights Association and subscribes to INSIGHT’s Code of Standards. You can be assured that your responses will be treated with the strictest confidence. This survey is conducted under the authority of section 26(e) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
All UBC faculty and staff who are active employees of the University prior to the survey deployment date and have an active work email address on UBC’s Workday system will be emailed a unique link to complete the Workplace Experiences Survey.
Participant email addresses, which are required by TalentMap to send the invitation, will be stripped out from the survey data file by TalentMap before it is provided back to UBC. No other identifying information (such as employee names or Employee IDs) are being collected through the survey.
Survey data is stored in Canada
Survey feedback is collected on TalentMap’s secure platform. The survey is hosted on servers located in Canada, and all survey data is transmitted in Canada.
Ensuring data privacy and confidentiality
Individual survey responses will not be shared; responses will be aggregated to protect the privacy of individual respondents. Reports for managers and leaders will only be provided where there are a minimum of five respondents and will include employees based on the supervisory organizations in Workday. No individual comments from the open-ended question will be shared in the reports. We only share the overall themes that emerge from the comments.
Faculty and staff were asked demographic questions (such as age, length of service, and equity groups). This enables overall data analysis and offers institutional-level insights into the progress on efforts to make UBC a more diverse, inclusive, safe and vibrant workplace. Respondents can select “Prefer not to answer” for any demographic question. No demographic information will be shared in unit-level reports to managers.
Two UBC survey administrators will have access to the survey data (this includes individual responses) for additional high-level statistical analysis. The survey data file does not include names, email addresses, or Employee ID.
View TalentMap’s privacy statement or contact privacy@talentmap.com for more information.