Companies need to know how their employees feel about their workplace so they make changes to the work environment if necessary. In an endeavor to find their employees feelings about their jobs many companies use an employment satisfaction survey.

An employment satisfaction survey is usually administered at once sometimes twice a year by the company. These employment surveys contain a broad range of topics, everything from how the employee feels about their salary to how they feel they are being treated by the company. The type of employment satisfaction survey usually given are the ones where the employee fills in a block or bubble by the answer that most describes their feelings about what they are being asked in the question.

For instance the statement could read, "I like my supervisor" do you agree, disagree and so on. These opened end questions allow the company to see if there is a division between workers and leadership in one are or throughout the company.

An employment satisfaction survey is important for a number of reasons. One is that most disgruntled employees will not come out and openly tell a company how they feel. The disgruntled employee will either quit or just endure the job because they have no where else to go.

An employment satisfaction survey allows the disgruntled employee to vent a little. They may still feel that answering the questions on the employment surveys will not do any good but they still have had the opportunity to say what is on their mind.

Second, an employment satisfaction survey will allow the company to find out what they are doing right so that can build upon their successes and try to rectify that which they are doing wrong. In the past the only way a company knew if they had done something right was by the favorable response of the employees. With the size of today's' companies most of the time that is not going to happen so employment surveys can be a bridge between company and employee.

One of the chief downsides to an employment satisfaction survey is that they are impersonal and leave some employees with a bad taste in their mouth. Some employees feel that if management wants to know how they come out and ask and employment surveys are seen as a sign that management does not care. An employment satisfaction survey like anything else is a tool that needs to be used correctly to be effective.