Employee Engagement Product Updates 2025

Explore the key features and updates of Culture Amp’s Employee Engagement Product released in 2025.

We’ve upgraded the sentiment and topic classification models behind Text Analytics to deliver more accurate and insightful results from your survey comments. This update improves how comments are tagged and summarized, helping you get even more value from open-text feedback.

Check out the Text Analytics in Comments Reporting article to learn more.

We’ve refreshed the Report Index Page to improve performance and bring the user experience in line with other areas of the platform.

While the core functionality remains the same, you’ll notice a few subtle enhancements aimed at helping reports load faster—especially for customers managing a large number of reports.

Note: The Report Index Page does not include date range filters or sorting—those are available on the Survey Index Page. Learn more.

We're excited to announce the addition of two new (optional) fields to the Employee Data Template: Mobile Phone Number and Timezone. These updates will help you get ready for the upcoming SMS Survey Invite notifications, which will be available to our Pilot customers starting April 29th.

What’s new?

This update is part of our ongoing effort to enable SMS-based Survey Invite notifications, with the full feature rollout planned for later this quarter. We're giving early adopter customers a chance to import and update this data in advance to make the transition smoother. Learn more.

The ability to export Comments Reports with multiple demographic columns is now live in GA when RDE (Raw Data Extract) is enabled on a survey. This brings back functionality previously deprecated in October. We've listened to customer feedback and understand how valuable demographic context is—especially for large organizations making data-informed decisions. To access this, RDE must be enabled, multiple comment filters requested at survey setup, and the export can only be performed by users with the Survey Data Analyst role. Learn more.

We’re introducing the Promotion Rate metric to help you track the percentage of employees promoted during a selected period, based on the average number of full-time equivalent (FTE) employees.

Key Benefits:

Available now in the Talent Management chapter of the People Analytics platform.

We’re excited to introduce the Time to Promotion metric! This new feature helps track how long employees typically take to earn a promotion using historical promotion data.

Key Benefits:

Available now in the Talent Management chapter of the People Analytics platform.

We’re excited to introduce the Compa-ratio metric! This new feature helps Admins and HR teams assess employee compensation fairness by comparing individual salaries to the midpoint of their salary range based on job profile, grade, and location.

Key Benefits:

The Compa-ratio metric includes a detailed comparable Employees table for deeper insights.

Available now in the Rewards chapter of the People Analytics platform.

Now available in the Headcount chapter, the Retention Rate metric helps you understand how well you're retaining employees over time—without being skewed by new hires.

Available now in the Turnover & Retention chapter of the People Analytics platform.

The Used Vacation Time metric empowers HR teams and leaders to monitor vacation usage across the organization. By highlighting trends in underutilized time off, this metric supports smarter workforce planning, promotes healthier work habits, and helps prevent burnout.

Low vacation usage can be an early warning sign of overwork, burnout, or a workplace culture that discourages time off. This metric helps you:

Start using this metric to make data-driven decisions that support employee wellbeing and retention. Available now in the Turnover chapter of the People Analytics platform.

We’ve just added a Performance Rating filter to People Analytics!

Now, you can view the most recent performance rating for each employee and apply it across all metrics and insights. This lets you easily analyze high- and low-performing employees in more detail.

With this update, you’ll gain even deeper insights into how performance impacts key factors like:

Plus, this brings us one step closer to being a fully integrated platform, with both engagement and performance data now available in People Analytics. Learn more.

We’re excited to announce that AI Comment Summaries with Multiple Filters is now generally available! This enhancement—one of the most requested by our larger customers—allows users to apply multiple while viewing AI Comment Summaries.

Now, leaders can gain deeper, more granular insights from AI Comment Summaries across both Admin and filtered reports, as long as AI Comment Summaries and filters are enabled. Check out our AI Comment Summaries in Engagement Results article to learn more about this update.

We've given the Custom Heatmap Report a makeover to match the sleek design of the Standard Heatmap Report! Now, it’s more accessible, responsive, and packed with exciting new features like sortable columns and other improvements to make your experience even better.

Check out our Custom Heatmap article to learn more.

We're introduced the ability for admins to schedule additional reminders for Attributed (snapshot) type surveys like engagement before the final reminder is sent. These reminders will use the same message text and provide more flexibility in encouraging participation. Previously, only two reminders were available—the first and final reminders—but many customers have requested the option to send more. This update is a first step toward greater flexibility in survey reminders, making it easier to drive participation across your organization.

Check out our Scheduling Additional Survey Reminders article to learn more.

We’re excited to announce some updates to the AI Comment Comparisons in the Heatmap—now with more granular controls for sharing and the ability to provide feedback!

What’s New?

Check out our AI Comment Comparisons in Engagement Results for more information.

We’re thrilled to announce that the latest benchmark updates, covering the period from 1st January 2024 to 31st December 2024, are now live on the platform and in Culture Amp Insights!

Engagement benchmarks are a core part of Culture Amp, helping thousands of organizations every day to gain insights into employee experience and performance, whether through our product or published reports. Regular updates allow us to continue delivering value, ensuring that we stay relevant and insightful for our users.

In this release, we’ve expanded our offerings with the introduction of new benchmarks for the following industries and regions:

These new benchmarks provide deeper insights into key sectors, giving our users even more powerful data to drive decisions.

We’re excited about these updates and look forward to how they’ll support your organization’s success. Learn more.

We’re excited to announce that AI Comment Comparisons are now available in General Availability (GA) in the Heatmap report.

AI Comment Comparisons make it easier than ever to understand what’s driving engagement within your organization. By comparing employee comments across cohorts with different engagement levels, leaders can quickly identify key themes that are working well—and areas that need attention—without the hassle of manual analysis.

Key Benefits:

This new capability empowers you to quickly uncover valuable insights and take action on what matters most to your employees.

To learn more about using AI Comment Comparisons, check out the AI Comment Comparisons in Engagement Results article.

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