Employee Readiness Surveys

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  • Updated July 31, 2025
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    Summary of Employee Readiness Surveys

    The ServiceNow® Employee Readiness Surveys application enables organizations to assess their workforce’s readiness to return to the workplace by distributing customizable surveys. This app is designed to be installed alongside Emergency Outreach, facilitating targeted survey delivery through outreach notifications. Administrators can tailor survey questions to address specific regional needs or concerns, helping organizations manage workplace re-entry effectively after emergencies or pandemics.

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    Key Features

    • Integration with Emergency Outreach: Surveys are sent via Emergency Outreach notifications, allowing targeted communication with employees.
    • Customizable Surveys: Check-in administrators can view, edit, and create multiple surveys to meet diverse readiness evaluation needs.
    • Guided Setup Support: The Safe Workplace guided setup streamlines configuration of Safe Workplace and Emergency Response Management apps.
    • Part of Safe Workplace Suite: Works alongside applications like Employee Health Screening, Explore Workplace Core, and PPE Inventory Management for comprehensive workforce and workplace safety management.
    • Support for Federal Environments: Federal customers have access to these applications in IL4 or FedRAMP environments with specific installation instructions and licensing requirements.
    • Domain Separation: Supports domain separation through Survey Management to maintain data segregation as needed.

    Practical Considerations for ServiceNow Customers

    • Installation requires admin role; it adds notification options and a default health readiness survey to Emergency Outreach.
    • Administrators with appropriate roles can modify existing surveys or create new ones to align with organizational policies and legal requirements, including data protection laws.
    • Organizations bear sole responsibility for ensuring compliance with applicable laws and should adjust survey language accordingly.
    • Government agencies are offered the app free of charge for a limited time but must verify compliance with ethics rules and legal obligations independently.
    • Installation procedures differ based on commercial, federal, or on-premise environments; customers must follow the appropriate guidance for their setup.

    Key Outcomes

    By leveraging Employee Readiness Surveys, ServiceNow customers can efficiently gauge employee preparedness for returning to physical workplaces. This capability supports informed decision-making to maintain workplace safety and regulatory compliance during transitions following emergencies or health crises. When combined with other Safe Workplace suite applications, it enables a holistic approach to managing workforce health and workspace readiness.

    The ServiceNow® Employee Readiness Surveys application lets you evaluate the readiness of your workforce to return to the workplace by asking users to complete a survey.

    Employee Readiness Surveys is an application that you install to use with Emergency Outreach. For information about Emergency Outreach and how surveys are sent via outreach notifications, see Emergency Outreach.

    After you install the application, the check-in administrator for Emergency Outreach can view and edit the survey questions to suit your needs. New surveys can be added, for example, to evaluate users in different regions or address other concerns.

    The check-in administrator sends the surveys to targeted audiences using the Emergency Outreach notification methods.

    Use guided setup to implement Safe Workplace suite apps
    The Safe Workplace guided setup provides a sequence of tasks that help you configure the Safe Workplace and Emergency Response Management applications on your ServiceNow instance. To open the Safe Workplace guided setup, navigate to Guided Setup > Safe Workplace Guided Setup. For more information about using the guided setup interface, see Using guided setup.

    Use with other Safe Workplace suite applications

    Employee Readiness Surveys is part of a suite of ServiceNow® Safe Workplace suite applications. Use it with these other applications to help your organization prepare its workforce and workplaces to resume operations after emergencies and pandemics like COVID-19.

    All Safe Workplace suite applications are available in the ServiceNow Store.

    Safe Workplace suite for federal customers

    Federal customers using IL4 or FedRAMP environments will see the Safe Workplace suite applications ready and available to install on their nonproduction instances without having to make any special requests. Licenses are required to use Safe Workplace suite applications on production instances. Customers are responsible for configuring the apps to meet U.S. federal regulations and guidelines.

    Table 1. Installation instructions for self-hosted and federal environments
    Type Instructions

    Commercial on-premise

    Visit the ServiceNow® Store to download and install the application.

    Federal hosted

    See the Federal downloads for the Emergency Response Management and Safe Workplace suite apps [KB0030260] article in the Store Help Center for more information.

    Federal on-premise

    If you are a federal on-premise customer and you would like to install this application, reach out to your sales representative or open a Now Support or HIWAVE ticket. In the ticket, request to be routed to the SHOT team.

    See the Federal downloads for the Emergency Response Management and Safe Workplace suite apps [KB0030260] article in the Store Help Center for more information.

    On-premise

    See the Commercial downloads for the Emergency Response Management and Safe Workplace suite apps [KB0030258] article in the Store Help Center for more information.

    Domain separation for the Employee Readiness Surveys application

    Surveys are configured and managed through the Survey Management application on your ServiceNow instance. For information about how domain separation is supported, see Domain separation for Survey Management.