Describe your workforce and the decision HR needs to make. Generate an editable return to office survey covering schedules, commutes, workplace needs, and concerns.
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Sample prompts for the survey builder
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Audience
Employees choosing between proposed hybrid schedules
Format
Short preference survey with ranked choices
Prompt size
273 chars
Example survey structure
Short preference survey with ranked choices
How many office days do you prefer?
Which weekdays work best?
Rank what matters on office days
What concerns affect your preference?
Anything else HR should consider?
Suggested routing tags
Schedule preferences
Workplace concerns
Accommodation follow-up
Ask why employees prefer a schedule separately from the preference itself.
Step 1
Ask
preferences, constraints, and concerns
Step 2
Segment
compare teams, sites, and work arrangements
Step 3
Plan
use patterns to shape schedules and support
Step 4
Follow up
close the loop and pulse again
Better planning input
Separate schedule choices from their practical reasons so HR can see patterns and workplace friction.
Use consistent choices and rankings for frequency, weekdays, and arrival windows, with comments for context.
Branch by location, work arrangement, or response to keep each path relevant.
Pair optional comments with a separate request for private HR follow-up.
Four moments to survey
Match the survey to the decision your team is making now.
Learn preferred frequency, in-person activities, commute realities, and concerns.
Collect workspace, equipment, transportation, accessibility, and follow-up needs.
Compare weekday preferences and collaboration needs across teams.
Pulse on barriers, workplace experience, coordination, and improvements.
Survey workflow
Generate, edit, publish, and organize responses around a defined planning decision.
Specify the planning stage, locations, employee groups, and choices under consideration.
Remove irrelevant questions, label optional fields, and explain the survey purpose.
Publish one core survey and branch into relevant site-specific sections.
Compare distributions, read context, and communicate what happens next.
Choose the collection method
Use consistent planning questions across employees, then follow up with discussion where needed.
Field guide
Cover employee context, schedule choices, barriers, workplace readiness, and next steps.
Work context
Ask location, team, and work arrangement only when those answers change available options. Keep identity fields optional unless follow-up is needed.
Schedule preferences
Separate frequency, weekday, and timing questions. Rank proposed arrangements to show their order of preference.
Purpose of office time
Ask which activities employees value in person, from team planning and training to specialist equipment.
Barriers and concerns
Use a barrier checklist, an optional comment, and a separate choice for private HR follow-up.
Workplace readiness
Measure needed resources and branch by site so employees rate facilities they may use.
Confidence and comments
Check whether expectations are clear, then invite one final suggestion or follow-up request.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for HR and people teams designing a fair, focused employee survey.
It collects employee input about proposed workplace arrangements, including preferred schedules, in-person activities, commute impact, workplace needs, concerns, and comments. Tie it to a defined planning decision and explain how feedback will be considered.
Ask preferred frequency, workable weekdays, valuable in-person activities, commute impact, workspace needs, and attendance concerns. Use ranked options when comparing schedules and an optional comment for context.
Match its length to the decision. A pulse can use mostly structured questions; a multi-site survey may need branching. Show only relevant follow-ups, remove repetition, and test the form before publishing.
You can omit required identity fields. Collect only necessary reporting groups, avoid combinations that identify people in small groups, and offer a separate optional route for individual HR follow-up.
Ask broadly whether an employee wants private follow-up about an individual need. Collect a contact method only after yes, and keep detailed personal information out of the general survey.
Use consistent core questions and an appropriate location or team field, then branch by site. Compare answer distributions, read comments for context, and report small groups cautiously.
Yes. Makeform provides unlimited free forms and responses, so you can generate, edit, publish, and repeat the survey without a response cap. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Summarize patterns and conflicts, connect findings to decisions, and explain what changes next. After launch, repeat a short pulse using the same core measures.
Ask before you finalize the office plan.
