Employee Readiness Surveys

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  • Updated March 12, 2026
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    Summary of Employee Readiness Surveys

    The ServiceNow® Employee Readiness Surveys application enables organizations to assess workforce readiness for returning to the workplace by distributing customizable surveys. This application integrates with Emergency Outreach to send surveys as notifications to targeted user groups, allowing organizations to evaluate factors such as regional concerns or compliance with safety protocols before workforce re-entry.

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    Key Features

    • Customizable Surveys: Check-in administrators can view, edit, and create multiple survey versions tailored to different regions or workplace concerns.
    • Integration with Emergency Outreach: Surveys are sent using Emergency Outreach notification mechanisms, supporting targeted communication.
    • Guided Setup: The Safe Workplace guided setup assists in configuring Safe Workplace and Emergency Response Management applications efficiently.
    • Safe Workplace Suite Compatibility: Works alongside other Safe Workplace applications such as Employee Health Screening, Explore Workplace Core, and PPE Inventory Management to provide a comprehensive workforce safety and readiness solution.
    • Domain Separation Support: Surveys are managed through Survey Management with support for domain separation, ensuring data segregation where needed.
    • Installation Options: Available for commercial on-premise, federal hosted, and federal on-premise environments with specific instructions and support paths for each.
    • Roles and Permissions: Admin roles (admin, snimtcheckin.checkinadmin, surveyadmin) are required to install, configure notifications, and manage surveys.

    Practical Considerations for Customers

    • Legal and Compliance Responsibility: Organizations are responsible for ensuring surveys and their language comply with applicable laws, including data protection and employment regulations, as ServiceNow does not provide legal advice or guarantee compliance.
    • Government Usage Notice: Government agencies can use the application free of charge for a limited time and must confirm ethical approvals and compliance independently.
    • Customization and Flexibility: The ability to modify or create new surveys enables organizations to address specific readiness concerns and regulatory requirements effectively.
    • Installation Prerequisites: Admin access is required to install the application, which adds default notification options and a baseline health readiness survey to the Emergency Outreach app.
    • Complementary Tools: Use Employee Readiness Surveys in conjunction with other Safe Workplace suite apps to comprehensively manage workplace safety, health screening, workspace configuration, and PPE inventory.

    Expected Outcomes

    By implementing Employee Readiness Surveys, ServiceNow customers can systematically gauge workforce readiness, enhance communication through targeted outreach, and better prepare for safe workplace re-entry. This application supports proactive management of health and safety protocols, helping organizations to meet internal policies and external regulations while fostering employee confidence during transitions back to physical workspaces.

    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.