This employee engagement survey is a ready to print questionnaire for HR teams and people managers who want a thorough read on how their workforce feels. It combines short background questions with rating grids across every area that shapes engagement, plus open text for honest feedback. The template runs to ten pages, with 53 questions in total, and is designed to be completed anonymously.
What this survey measures
The survey opens with background questions such as age group, gender, ethnicity, length of service, work experience, job role, employment type, and department. It then moves through sixteen themed sections: career development, your manager, work engagement, compensation, relationships and communication, recognition, benefits, wellbeing and workload, work environment, leadership and direction, purpose and values, teamwork and collaboration, psychological safety, inclusion and belonging, flexible and hybrid work, and customer focus. A closing section asks about intention to stay, gives a likelihood to recommend score, and asks which two changes would most improve the experience of working here. Most sections pair a five point rating grid with one or two focused follow-up questions. Three open ended questions close the survey, asking what people like most, what they like least, and what they would improve.
How to use it on paper
Print the survey and hand it out during a team meeting, an all hands session, or by placing copies in a shared break area for staff to complete privately. Ask respondents to use a blue or black pen and to mark one answer per line. Collect the finished forms in a sealed box to protect anonymity, then scan or photograph them. PaperSurvey reads the marked answers and handwritten comments automatically, so you get results without manual data entry.
Customize this template
Most teams swap in their own logo and colors, adjust the section wording to match internal language, and add or remove rating rows to fit their priorities. You can also change the scale labels, drop sections you do not need, or trim the background questions. The layout reflows automatically whenever you edit, so spacing and page breaks stay clean.
Preview the PDF above, or use this template to start collecting responses today.