The EX blog
News, views, ideas, and resources that inspire a higher engagement and stronger employee experience
Leading with heart and vision: Ambea’s strategy for its highest eNPS ever
Ambea, Scandinavia’s leading care provider, has in recent years intensified its focus on leadership, skill development, and employee well-being. This strategy has resulted in reduced staff turnover, increased employee engagement, and the company’s highest eNPS to...
Populum on the #TalentBuzz podcast
Low employee turnover and a high eNPS – what does an effective recipe for success look like? Johannes, founder of Populum, joins Samuli Salonen, CEO of TalentBee, on the podcast #TalentBuzz to share his thoughts and experiences on how to create engaged employees. In...
5-step guide: How to succeed in change management
Navigating organizational change can be challenging due to the many factors involved. While there’s no one-size-fits-all solution, proven frameworks can guide you towards successful transformation. We’ve put together a five-step model designed to help you manage...
5 ways to measure and improve employee engagement
Are you noticing poor results in your employee engagement survey? Creating and maintaining high employee engagement is crucial for both employee satisfaction and business success. Engaged employees not only contribute to increased productivity and innovation, but they...
State of the Manager – inside the mind of today’s leader
Key insights into what drives engagement and well-being among leaders.
How to create a culture of continuous learning
Did you know that continuous skill development is more rewarding than annual one-time efforts? In today’s fast-paced, technology-driven environment, creating a culture of continuous learning is essential for any organization. This article explores three practical...
How to ensure a safe and inclusive feedback environment
Incorporating sensitive comment analysis into your pulse surveys is a crucial step towards a more inclusive and respectful workplace. Here, we explain the importance of sensitive comment analysis and how our module can help you to maintain a respectful and inclusive...
30 Tips for Choosing an Employee Survey Provider
Selecting the right employee survey provider is a crucial decision for any organization. With countless options available, how do you make an informed choice? In this article, we share 30 practical tips that reflect our understanding of what truly matters in employee...
Are employee surveys really anonymous?
Anonymity in employee surveys is required for it to serve as a sustainable improvement process. While it is expected, not all employee survey software enforces anonymity. Why should employee surveys be anonymous? Ensuring employee anonymity is the most fundamental...
Self-leadership: Maximize your daily performance
Inclusive leadership is centered around creating an environment where everyone feels seen, listened to, and valued, benefiting people and the bottom line.
Develop and maintain an inclusive leadership style
Inclusive leadership is centered around creating an environment where everyone feels seen, listened to, and valued, benefiting people and the bottom line.
Barely 20% of Finnish organizations conduct an inclusive employee survey process
We asked the Finnish audience whether their employees can access the employee survey results – less than 20%. This is an issue; here’s what to do about it.
eNPS is not the whole truth
Understanding the shortcomings of eNPS to fully understand how you can maximize its value in the workplace.
CatalystOne + Populum: An interview with Johannes Midtbö
Populum will continue as a standalone subsidiary and will continue to be offered as a standalone to all clients regardless of their choice of HCM system.
CatalystOne Solutions acquires employee engagement and pulse software provider Populum
Populum will continue to be offered as a standalone product to existing and new customers and the preferred choice for CatalystOne customers.
3 steps to reducing sick leave using AI models in your employee survey
There is a modern way of working to reduce and prevent sickness absence; with the help of AI models in your modern employee survey.
AI in HR: 7 ways AI guides well-being and performance
One obvious place for AI in HR is in your modern employee survey. You can leverage EX in making decisions and get your people on board change initiatives.
Top trends at Unleash World 2023 in Paris
Top trends from Unleash World 2023.
Populum named a Gasell 2023 by Dagens industri
Populum, a Nordic leader in employee surveys, has been named a Gasell 2023 by Dagens industri, the Nordic region’s most prominent business newspaper.
ROI of Engagement
The measurable financial effects of increased employee engagement in your organization.
Successfully leveraging the new—yet old—law of talent attraction and retention
An organizational culture where people perceive they can perform and have well-being is essential. A central component of such a culture is social belonging.
The future of employee surveys
Most change initiatives still fail, and the most common reason is that the organization does not measure and follow up with the people going through the change.
Measure your organizational culture transparently to unlock its competitive advantage
Organizational culture is a well-discussed topic for its potential to make or break execution. When developed right, you can gain a competitive advantage.
Build a sustainable culture
One way to successfully promote desirable behaviors on a large scale is to regularly measure and follow up on the selected behaviors and the culture.
Ensure your managers have a healthy work environment
Instead of letting managers become stressed out, there are smart, systematic ways to approach their work environment for a sustainable leadership.
Leverage your modern employee survey to win in the war for talent
In the war for talent, a key is improving the employee experience to ensure the work environment dynamically supports well-being and performance.
Populum.io recruits Jonas Olovsson as Chief Revenue Officer to accelerate growth
Jonas Olovsson, former Head of Sales at &frankly, will assume the newly established Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) role at Populum.
Improve your eNPS and strengthen your employer brand
Developing a strong employer brand starts with employees’ relationship with their employer’s brand, which eNPS simply and quickly indicates.
Populum.io sponsors the Swedish Championship in Employer Branding
Populum, a Nordic leader in employee surveys, sponsors the Magnet Awards Swedish Championship in Employer Branding.
Populum.io strengthens and focuses leadership team with key recruitment
Johan Geiding joins Populum as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Deputy CEO.
Populum.io celebrates 100,000 users by donating SEK 100,000 to Vi-skogen
To celebrate 100,000 users in the platform, Populum, a Nordic player in HR tech and employee surveys, donates SEK 100,000 to Vi-skogen.
Do you know that you work with inclusion in the right way?
When you measure inclusion with the help of your modern employee survey, you give every employee the opportunity to make their voice heard on equal terms.
9 Drivers of Engagement
9 Drivers of Engagement gives tips on how you as an organization can strengthen employee engagement and give your teams the best conditions to perform.
4 strategic applications of AI-based comment analytics
With the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI), it is possible to quickly analyze large amounts of free text comments from an employee survey in real time.
5 tips to gain more from your employee survey
There are several tips for how to better understand the employee experience. Here are five recommendations for when you use your employee survey as a tool.
Why it is important to regularly understand the employee experience
Anna Tebelius Bodin explains why it is important to continuously understand the employee experience using the connection to neuroscience.
The top 8 tips for ensuring valuable insights from your employee survey
Insights from an employee survey have the potential to create great value for leaders, HR and the entire organization, including the employees themselves.
The KTH Royal Institute of Technology awards Populum the contract to implement their modern employee survey
Receiving the highest quality score during the evaluation process, Populum is Awarded the multimillion kronor contract with the KTH.
A tool for the manager and the work environment
SJ focuses improvement work and their work environment focus at the team level, and gives each manager a digital, modern employee survey as a tool.
SJ’s journey from a traditional to a modern employee survey
Alligo shares their experience with PopulumGPT; intelligent summary of free-text comments in you employee survey.
From comprehensive annual action plans to continuous agile improvement work
SJ changed its way of working and gained employee experience insights, simplified team feedback, and increased employee accountability of change efforts.
Populum partners with CatalystOne to offer customers a modern employee survey
Understanding teams and acting together is made easy and accurate for all CatalystOne customers with integrated access to Populum’s employee survey platform.
The Future of Work Life
In this study, The new working life, over 100 HR managers talk about the effects of Covid-19 on their workplaces.
The 13 main problems with the annual employee survey and what to do instead
The need for organizations to manage the employee experience and well-being more frequently is rapidly increasing.
Ambea’s Teambarometer: For an active workforce
To understand its current employee experience, Ambea uses its Teambarometer, powered by Populum’s technical platform.