The more you listen to your employees, the sooner you spot engagement dips and turnover risks. So you make better people decisions, backed by data.
There's a catch, though. When your feedback platform and your HRIS (Human Resources Information System) don’t talk to each other, regular feedback means more manual work piling up for your People team. Every cycle you’re faced with exporting an employee list, cleaning it up, uploading it, then reconnecting everyone's department, location, and job title by hand. Do that once and it's an afternoon. Do it every month, across a global org, and it's a second job that only gets heavier as you grow. That's how HR loses the steady pulse on employee sentiment that better decisions depend on.
More than 160,000 organizations already use SurveyMonkey to listen to their people, and helping those employee experience teams understand their workforce better is a top priority for us right now.
That's why our Product team built two new HRIS integrations with leading platforms, Workday and BambooHR. Both are available at no additional charge in the plans you already have—Workday in SurveyMonkey Enterprise, and BambooHR in Team Premier and Enterprise—so you can get started right away.
How the new HRIS integrations work
Whether you’re using Workday or BambooHR, connecting your HRIS to SurveyMonkey only requires a few clicks. After the initial setup, your employee data syncs with SurveyMonkey every 24 hours, which means every time you want to send a survey, you can send it to an up-to-date list—no manual list prepping needed. Then your survey results come back with that data already attached, so you can understand your employees' feedback in context.
Connecting your HRIS changes three things about a survey, from the first draft to the final read-out to leadership:
- You reach the right people without the prep. Build your audience straight from current Workday or BambooHR data, like department, location, or employment status, instead of wrangling a spreadsheet. Your employee data syncs from your HRIS every 24 hours, so you're always working from the latest org chart. Once the connection is in place, sending the next survey is a matter of hitting send, not rebuilding the list.
- You see feedback in context. Responses come back already carrying employee details like department, location, and job title, so you can filter and compare results without manually stitching different data sources.
- Your response rate increases thanks to a better survey experience. When SurveyMonkey already knows someone's department and location, you don't have to ask. Those questions drop off the survey, employees get a shorter and more relevant experience, and you address one of the most common reasons people quit a survey halfway through: survey fatigue.
Where this pays off
The capabilities are useful on their own. They're more useful lined up against the work HR is already doing.
Onboarding gets better. New-hire feedback only helps if you can see it by the things that shape the first 90 days. With the integration, you can easily pull new hires into your survey audience with the right attributes attached, like location, department, remote versus onsite, so you can analyze their feedback in the right context. You stop asking things like "Are you joining as a remote or onsite employee?" and start seeing insights like your remote engineering hires struggling with setup, while your onsite sales hires are thriving.
Continuous listening programs become a breeze. Recurring engagement and pulse programs are where the manual work hurts most, because every cycle starts with rebuilding the list. Now, the audience refreshes itself against the latest org chart, so there's nothing to re-prep between rounds.
Reading the room during change gets easier. Reorgs, leadership changes, return-to-office shifts, and integrations after an acquisition—all land differently across an organization. Because responses carry department, team, and location, you can compare how one employee group is reacting to change, and see where sentiment is dropping before it shows up in attrition. That's the difference between finding out a division is unhappy in the exit interviews and finding out in time to do something.
Try connecting your HRIS today
The Workday integration is included in SurveyMonkey Enterprise. The BambooHR integration is included in Team Premier and SurveyMonkey Enterprise. If you're on an eligible plan, you can connect to your HRIS from the Settings tab, with just a few clicks.
This is just the start
We built these integrations for HR and employee experience teams, and we're going to keep investing in them, bringing you more automation, more control, and a tighter connection between your people data and your listening programs. Much of it is already underway, and we’ve got more innovations in store for People teams, so stay tuned!
Ready to connect employee feedback to the data behind it? Explore how the Workday and BambooHR integrations work, and see which plan fits your team.