In 2009, UBC offered its first Workplace Experience Survey. This survey was intended to give faculty and staff in the UBC community an opportunity to provide feedback on their experiences confidentially and anonymously. Over 2,700 faculty and staff responded, and the survey findings were shared at town halls and on the Focus on People website.
Since then, themes and areas of opportunity that emerged in the survey have helped to confirm, identify, and prioritize Focus on People strategic initiatives, along with other inputs, such as retention and recruitment data and trends. Please visit http://focusonpeople.ubc.ca/workplace-experiences-survey/ to learn more about how the 2009 Workplace Experience Survey key findings map to Focus on People strategic initiatives in 2009-2010.
Every six months, Focus on People reports progress on strategic initiatives to the university community through Perspectives and our Annual Report. We encourage you to read the stories in our 2010 annual report and learn more about some of these strategic initiatives which support an outstanding work environment at UBC. We acknowledge that there is still work to be done and efforts continue on projects, many of which are complex and longer term.
Providing an outstanding work environment is a continual process and we would like to hear from you again on how we are doing. We invite you to participate in the 2011 Workplace Experience Survey this fall. Your feedback will to help us to better understand the impact of the people practices work completed so far, and also to identify future priorities for Focus on People that support the Outstanding Work Environment commitment in Place and Promise: the UBC Plan.
