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Boost productivity by 21%
When you’re comparing employee engagement platforms, the challenge isn’t just about features or cost. It’s about finding a partner that helps you genuinely understand how employees feel and gives you the clarity and confidence to act on that insight.
People Insight is built around this principle. Our employee engagement platform is designed not just to collect data, but to turn it into meaningful change. While other platforms undoubtedly offer strong features, we go that one step further. We provide expert-led support, strategic analysis and a people-first approach, making us the go-to choice for a lot of businesses around the UK and globally.
To save you hours of research, we’ve compiled a guide and comparison, giving you all the information you need to make an informed decision on who to partner with. We look at how People Insight stacks up against other leading employee engagement platforms, and what really makes the difference when it comes to achieving long-term impact.
But first, let’s get into some definitions.
Related: What makes People Insight the most actionable employee survey platform?
An employee engagement platform is a digital tool that helps organisations measure, understand and improve how employees feel about their work, colleagues and workplace. It typically includes tools to run employee surveys, gather feedback at key moments in the employee experience and provide insight into employee sentiment and engagement trends.
The best employee engagement platforms do more than just collect data. They provide clear reporting, accessible dashboards and tools that help you act on what you learn. This often includes features like AI-powered sentiment analysis and expert HR support for running surveys across different regions, business units or languages.
At People Insight, we think of our employee engagement platform as part of a wider partnership. The platform delivers clear, actionable survey results, but what makes the difference is the support you get before, during and after the survey. From tailored survey design to internal comms support and expert advice on what to do next, the aim is always the same: helping organisations make meaningful change based on reliable feedback.
Before diving into comparisons, it’s worth defining what really matters when investing in an employee engagement platform. While many tools can help you distribute a survey, fewer give you the support and structure needed to turn that data into practical improvements across your organisation.
Here are the factors most organisations should prioritise:
When comparing employee engagement platforms, not all strengths are equal. Few deliver consistent quality across the full survey lifecycle. Below, we look at how People Insight compares to other well-known providers like Culture Amp, WorkBuzz, Peakon and Qualtrics across three core dimensions.
The way surveys are designed and distributed directly impacts employee participation and the quality of responses. If the process feels restrictive, inaccessible or impersonal, engagement suffers.
Many platforms like Culture Amp and WorkBuzz offer survey templates, which are quick to deploy but limited when you need customisation aligned to your culture, values or goals. People Insight offers fully bespoke survey design, shaped in partnership with you by experienced consultants. This means your survey reflects your language, tone and priorities, rather than a one-size-fits-all model.
Distribution flexibility is another differentiator. Some platforms limit you to email, while others offer more but with added complexity. People Insight surveys can be distributed by email, SMS or QR codes, with responsive mobile design to reach every employee, from frontline to hybrid. This accessibility helps you achieve higher response rates and greater inclusivity across your workforce.
Survey data is only valuable if it leads to change. Many providers present dashboards but leave the burden of interpretation and follow-through on you. WorkBuzz and Peakon provide basic filtering and self-service analytics, which can limit depth and leave results open to misinterpretation. Qualtrics and Culture Amp offer more advanced insight tools, but often require steep learning curves or enterprise tiers to access full functionality.
People Insight combines meaningful data visualisation with expert guidance. Our Prism AI to uncovers sentiment trends and flag high-impact areas. Importantly, this is paired with human-led support that helps you act on the data. We do not just surface issues; we help you understand them and provide guidance on what to do next.
Action planning is not left to guesswork. With our support, you get clear, practical steps that drive measurable progress. Many competitors offer downloadable toolkits. We offer real partnership to help embed change.
Launching a successful engagement survey requires more than software. Internal awareness, participation and follow-up all depend on effective support, both strategic and technical.
Whereas platforms like Culture Amp and WorkBuzz provide only downloadable materials or peer forums, People Insight offers dedicated consultant support at every stage. From building your comms campaign to planning your survey launch, our team is by your side.
Our experience working with UK organisations and global brands means we understand complex rollouts, including multi-language surveys, global benchmarks and cultural nuances. While many competitors require setup for international benchmarking, ours is built-in and ready to use.
This hands-on support makes our platform easy to use and scalable. Whether you are running your first survey or an enterprise-wide listening programme, our focus is on making the process seamless, insightful and impactful.
Some employee engagement platforms focus heavily on automation and dashboard design. Others excel at global benchmarking or cater mostly to enterprise organisations with internal analytics teams. People Insight excels in these areas but what gives us the edge is our people focus: we help you build trust with employees, gather meaningful data and act on that feedback in a way that leads to lasting change.
Many employee engagement platforms leave users to self-serve or navigate help centres. People Insight takes a different approach. From designing your survey to post-survey workshops and action planning, you have access to the support of a dedicated team of HR experts and survey consultants. That includes communications planning support to help raise awareness and boost participation, AI-powered analysis to explore sentiment at scale and structured action planning tools that help managers confidently respond to results.
Employee engagement platforms like Culture Amp or Officevibe offer attractive interfaces, but organisations often find it hard to translate their results into action. People Insight builds action planning into every stage of the journey, supporting people managers to understand sentiment, talk about engagement confidently and commit to changes that matter.
People Insight works with a wide range of public and private sector organisations, from local councils and universities to multinational brands operating across time zones. We support surveys in more than 50 languages, helping companies listen effectively across cultures and geographies. Our global benchmarking data includes norms from countries throughout Europe, Asia, North America and beyond, giving you meaningful comparisons that reflect your international workforce.
Your engagement survey should feel relevant and inclusive. With People Insight, surveys are designed to reflect your organisation’s culture. Whether you need pulse surveys, 360 feedback, onboarding and exit surveys or wellbeing surveys, the platform adapts around you.
Surveys are accessible across formats including email, SMS, QR code and intranet links, making them easy to complete even for employees without a corporate device. We also help you plan your internal communications, building anticipation and clarity around why the survey matters; a proven way to increase participation.
There’s a temptation to pick tools that promise automation and ease. But the reality is that survey data is only useful if it leads to action. Our benchmark data shows us that this is often an issue, with only 59% of employees believing action will be taken following a survey. This disconnect is where many platforms fall short. The features are there but the real-world follow-through often isn’t.
People Insight helps bridge this gap by turning data into dialogue. Our consultants guide you to build credibility with your employees by responding clearly and quickly to the feedback they share.
With People Insight, the survey process becomes more than just an annual pulse. It becomes a structured, supported cycle of listening, understanding and acting, led by experts and backed by data.
An employee engagement platform should help you listen with purpose. The way you design, deliver and act on surveys reflects how seriously your organisation takes its people. When you combine smart tools, practical support and expert interpretation, you go a step further than just measuring engagement. You begin to build trust and improve the employee experience for all your employees.
Ready to drive change with actionable survey insights? Speak to us about how an employee engagement survey through People Insight can help you gather meaningful insight, make sense of the results and drive real improvements using an employee engagement platform built for action.
