What Is Survey Automation?
Survey automation lets you automatically trigger survey invitations based on key employee milestones—like when someone starts or leaves your organization. It helps you gather consistent feedback at scale, without needing to manually launch each survey.
Supported Survey Types
Currently, survey automation is available for Onboarding and Exit surveys only. These surveys are based on the Attributed (Continuous) survey type, which connects feedback to employee milestones using your employee data.
Onboarding Surveys
Want to know how your new hires are settling in? Automatically send a survey based on an employee’s start date. For example, you might set it to send 30 days after their first day.
Great for understanding early experiences
Helps improve your onboarding process
Fully automated timing based on employee start date.
Learn more about automating onboarding surveys.
Exit Surveys
Understanding why people leave is important for keeping your team strong. Our automated exit surveys allow you to send a survey based on an employee's end date. For example, you might set it to send 4 days before their final day.
Capture feedback while it’s still fresh
Learn why people leave
Identify retention opportunities
Learn more about automating exit surveys.
What Templates Support Automation?
All templates under the Employee Experience section of the Template Library support automation, except for the Candidate Survey and Intern Survey. These templates are based on unattributed workflows and are designed to be sent manually outside of the platform, using a generic survey link.
Note: Are you using one of the supported templates and don’t see the automation option? Your survey may be using an unsupported workflow. Type Ask a person in a support conversation to discuss best options with a specialist.
Can Other Survey Types be Automated?
While we recognize the value of feedback at other employee lifecycle moments, we do not yet offer automation outside of Onboarding and Exit surveys.
The following survey types do not support automation:
❌ Engagement surveys
❌ Effectiveness (180° or 360°) surveys
❌ Unattributed surveys
❌ Candidate, Intern or Hiring Manager surveys
❌ Development or Growth check-ins
Tip: While automation isn’t available for survey types like Engagement, you can still save time by duplicating a past survey. Just create a copy, update the content as needed, and launch — perfect for recurring pulse surveys without starting from scratch.
We Value Your Feedback
We're always improving Culture Amp. If you'd benefit from automation for a different survey type, we want to hear from you. Please share feedback via a Support Conversation.
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