How to build an employee satisfaction survey dashboard

Turn employee feedback into actionable insights

In this guide, you’ll create an employee satisfaction survey form, link it to a live dashboard, and visualize trends like morale, communication, and leadership satisfaction, all without external tools.

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Step 1: Create your satisfaction survey form

From your workspace, click + New → Form, or open the Template gallery and search for Employee satisfaction survey.
You can also use Magic Create, try a prompt like:
“Employee satisfaction survey with rating fields, feedback text, and optional anonymous submission.”

Add fields such as:

• Department (Dropdown)
  
  
• Overall satisfaction (1–10 scale)
  
  
• Work-life balance rating
  
  
• Relationship with manager
  
  
• Opportunities for growth
  
  
• Open feedback field
  
  

💡 Tip: Keep your survey under 10 questions, shorter forms increase completion rates.

📘 Learn more: How to create an employee satisfaction survey

Step 2: Make your form engaging and clear

Customize the look and feel of your survey for internal rollout. Add your company logo, simple visuals, and a friendly tone.
Under Settings → Design, pick your brand colors and fonts, then adjust the intro text to set the right tone.

Example intro:

“We’d love your honest feedback. This survey is anonymous and helps us improve your workplace experience.”

📘 Learn more: Customize your form app layout and design

Step 3: Automate notifications (optional)

If you’d like HR or managers to be notified when new responses arrive, go to Settings → Advanced logic or Notify tab and add your internal recipients (e.g., hr@company.com).
Toggle Include submission summary for a quick overview in each email.

📘 Learn more: How to send and receive email notifications

Step 4: Collect feedback anonymously

To keep responses private, turn off respondent identification under Settings → Response settings and disable login requirements.
Alternatively, enable Memory forms for repeat surveys that auto-fill user details but keep feedback separate.

📘 Learn more: What are memory forms

Step 5: Visualize results in a live dashboard

Once responses start coming in, open your project’s Results → Responses tab, then switch to Dashboard view.
Add blocks such as:

• Charts (for satisfaction averages, trend lines, or department comparisons)
  
  
• Table view (for detailed feedback)
  
  
• Kanban (to group comments by themes like “Managerial,” “Workload,” or “Culture”)
  
  

📘 Learn more: How to showcase charts based on form responses

Step 6: Build an employee insights app

Create an internal App that combines your survey form and dashboard in one view.
Include:

• A “Submit your feedback” page (linked form)
  
  
• A “Results overview” page (dashboard)
  
  
• Optional pages for departmental insights
  
  

You can restrict visibility to HR or leadership only.

📘 Learn more: How to create or edit an app

Step 7: Share the dashboard securely

Click Share → Invite to workspace or Share → Public link to control who sees your dashboard.
For internal use, add HR or managers as workspace guests or set up a private portal for logged-in access.

📘 Learn more: How to create a portal and manage users access

Pro tips

• Track sentiment over time: duplicate the survey quarterly and compare dashboards.
  📘 Learn more: How to duplicate a form from the app’s bases
  
  
• Highlight top insights: use AI Analyze to summarize feedback themes automatically.
  📘 Learn more: Uncover insights & trends in your data with AI Analyze
  
  
• Use variable scoring: calculate an overall satisfaction index by combining multiple rating fields.
  📘 Learn more: How to sum multiple score fields to get a total score
  
  

Example scenario

Your HR team launches the quarterly satisfaction survey.
Responses roll in automatically and update the dashboard in real time.
Managers filter by department to identify areas with lower morale, while leadership views charts comparing scores over time.
Using AI Analyze, the system summarizes key feedback trends instantly.

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FAQ

1. Can employees edit their feedback later?
Yes, enable “Allow respondents to edit their submission” under form settings.
📘 Learn more: How to edit and delete responses

2. Can we download the dashboard data?
Of course, export to Excel or CSV anytime for reports.
📘 Learn more: How to export table data into Excel

3. Can I filter responses by department or region?
Yes, add filters in your dashboard table to slice data however you need.
📘 Learn more: How to sort and filter your submissions data

Your feedback insights, in one view

You’ve built a live employee satisfaction survey dashboard that continuously collects, visualizes, and summarizes feedback for leadership, helping your team take action, not just read results.

📘 Learn more: How to customize your portal with your brand identity

Last updated November 2025

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