MRS Employee Engagement and Satisfaction Survey report
14 January 2025

The MRS Employee Engagement and Satisfaction Survey (EESS) is part of the ongoing MRS People and Talent initiative. The new report, featuring the first cohort of research organizations that participated, has been launched. The Survey aims to help businesses better understand their workforces and benchmark their performance with other similar organizations in the sector.

Download the new EESS report here.

The EESS covers key elements of Employee Engagement, including Culture, Management, Development & Career, Inclusion & Diversity, and Remuneration. Designed by MRS using best practices from employee research and in consultation with experts, the Survey offers various benefits:

• Benchmark performance against the sector to identify strengths and improvement areas.
• Measure key metrics for research-sector businesses.
• Monitor performance to highlight priorities for improvement, enhancing employee engagement and motivation.
• Save time and resources by participating in the cost-effective MRS survey instead of creating in-house surveys.
• Provide evidence for award recognition, such as the MRS Research Live Best Place to Work award.

MRS plans to repeat the Survey regularly (annually or bi-annually) to track trends over time.

In its first pilot phase, 10 research organizations participated. Each company received a customized weblink to the Survey, hosted on SurveyMonkey, with anonymity and confidentiality ensured through automatic respondent IDs. The pilot ran from 26 February 2024 to 15 April 2024.

For more information on how to participate, see here.