Employee Net Promoter Score

Measure eNPS continuously, team by team

eNPS asks one thing: would your people recommend working here? Ask it anonymously on a steady rhythm, break the score down by team, and let Athena read the comments — so you see disengagement while it is still fixable, not in the exit interview.

15+ years on the market, trusted by 1,000+ organisations around the world to collect feedback and bring valuable insights
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eNPS dashboard: score of +20 with promoter and detractor split, engagement index, participation, open comments, the eNPS trend across annual surveys and pulses, and filters by department, location and tenure
Why it pays

A score is easy to collect. Trust is what makes it worth reading.

Most eNPS programmes fail quietly: answers turn cautious, response rates slide, and the number stops meaning anything. The value shows up when people trust the survey, the score comes with a reason, and managers know what to change.

Get answers people actually mean

eNPS only measures loyalty if employees feel safe giving a 3. Invitations can be sent without tracking who answered, and Athena strips names and contact details from comments before analysis.

Catch disengagement while it is fixable

An annual survey reports what people felt last spring. A quarterly or monthly eNPS pulse shows the drop in the round it starts — while the team, the manager and the cause are still the same.

Know what is behind the number

The score tells you that something moved. Athena groups the open answers into themes — workload, management, pay, growth — and measures their sentiment, so the discussion starts from causes instead of guesses.

Show that answering changes something

Share the result, commit to one or two actions, then ask the same question again. A trend that moves after a visible change is what keeps people answering in the next round.

Built on the same method as NPS for customers, and runs in the same account as CSAT and CES. New to the metric? Start with our guide to Employee Net Promoter Score.

How it works

From one question to a team that knows what to change

Collect

Ask anonymously, on a rhythm people can keep up with

eNPS only means something if people feel safe giving a low score. Send the 0–10 question with one open follow-up without tying answers to names, schedule it where your people already are, and keep the wording identical so every round stays comparable.

  • Anonymous email invitations that are not tied to the recipient’s address

  • Recurring distribution to Microsoft Teams, plus links and QR codes for people without a company inbox

  • Automatic reminders for everyone who has not answered yet

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eNPS score of +56 on a gauge, fed by individual responses whose authors stay hidden
Understand

See which team is drifting, and why

A healthy company average can hide one department in trouble. Break the score down by team, location or tenure, and let Athena turn hundreds of comments into themes you can put in front of leadership.

  • Department, location or tenure passed in as hidden variables, without asking anyone to identify themselves

  • Themes and sentiment from open-ended answers, with names and contact details redacted before analysis

  • Trend per segment, so a drop shows up in the round it starts

  • Ask Athena a question in plain language and get it answered from your own responses

Meet Athena
Six-week engagement trend, an Athena early-signal insight and anonymous, aggregated sentiment per team
Act

Turn the result into a change people can see

Employees stop answering when nothing happens. Share the results with the managers who own them, agree on one or two actions per team, and check them against the next round.

  • Alerts in Slack, Microsoft Teams or email when the score breaks its usual pattern

  • Live dashboards shared as read-only links with leadership and managers

  • Results passed on to the rest of your HR stack through webhooks, API, Zapier, Make or n8n

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Top insight for a team, an action plan with committed items, HR templates and manager access settings

Everything an eNPS programme needs

Trust, a steady rhythm and a way to act, so the score becomes a conversation and not a slide.

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Anonymous by design

Send invitations without tracking who answered, or share a link. Keep reported groups large enough that nobody can be singled out — honest detractors are the whole point.

Pulse on a schedule

Run eNPS monthly or quarterly with recurring distribution and automatic reminders, and keep the question identical so every round is comparable.

Team-level breakdowns

Pass department, location or tenure as hidden variables and filter the score by each. A stable company average often hides one team in trouble.

Always ask why

One optional open question under the 0–10 scale turns a score into a reason. That answer is where the fixable detail lives.

Comments read by Athena

Athena groups open answers into themes, measures sentiment and redacts personal details before analysis — no manual tagging of hundreds of comments.

Alerts when the score moves

An unusual drop is flagged and sent to Slack, Microsoft Teams or email, so HR hears about it the same week instead of at the next review.

Connected to your HR stack

Distribute through Microsoft Teams or Slack, then pass results on with webhooks, the API, Zapier, Make or n8n.

GDPR-ready by default

GDPR support, a DPA ready to sign, AES-256 encryption at rest, role-based permissions, 2FA and SSO on Enterprise — employee data deserves the same care as customer data.

Thanks to the Responsly platform, we can conduct surveys among our employees in an extremely simple and effective way.
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eNPS — frequently asked questions

What is a good eNPS score?

Anything above zero means you have more promoters than detractors. Published eNPS benchmarks mostly come from vendors’ own customer bases and use different samples, so they rarely compare cleanly. The comparison that holds up is your own previous round on the same question, and the gap between teams.

How often should we run an eNPS survey?

Quarterly suits most organisations: often enough to catch a change while it can still be addressed, rarely enough that people do not tune out. Monthly works during a reorganisation or in fast-growing teams, as long as you share what changed between rounds.

Are eNPS surveys in Responsly anonymous?

They can be. Send invitations with recipient tracking turned off, or share a link, and responses are not tied to an email address. For team-level results, keep groups large enough that an answer cannot be traced back to a person — a breakdown of three people is not anonymous, whatever the settings say.

What is the difference between eNPS and an engagement survey?

eNPS is one question that shows the direction of loyalty; an engagement survey runs to dozens of questions and diagnoses why. Most HR teams run eNPS as a pulse between annual engagement surveys and use the open comments to decide where to dig deeper.

Can we measure eNPS alongside customer NPS?

Yes. The method is the same, only the audience changes. HR can run employee programmes and CX teams customer surveys in the same Responsly account, each in its own shared projects.

Is Responsly free for eNPS surveys?

You can build and send an eNPS survey on the free plan, which covers 50 responses a month — enough to pilot it with one team. Paid plans raise the response limit and add filtering and segmentation, integrations and more users; Slack and Microsoft Teams distribution is part of Enterprise.