The Australian Workplace Index delivers future-focused business insights and intelligence in the areas of leadership, wellbeing, and productivity.

All businesses in Australia.

Understand how your business performance stacks up against Australian and International competitors. Benchmark your organisation against top performing Australian firms, and against two international databases - The World Values Survey and The World Management Survey.

It's free.

Register your interest online and a member of our team will contact you.

The workplace must employ a minimum of 15 employees.

Information is collected from all employees within the workplace using an online diagnostic which takes approximately 20-30 minutes to complete. More detailed information is required from corporate team members, but all up, it is less than an hour.

The diagnostic instrument is largely the same across industry sectors although some questions may vary to account for industry specific differences.

The results are analysed and provided to you within 15 working days.

Where your business is performing well and where there are opportunities to improve.

It is a strategic initiative of The University of Newcastle and The Australian National University.

We plan on it becoming an annual event.

Participating companies can repeat the process each year. The database is updated continuously as new firms go through.

Your data will remain confidential and anonymous at all times. The project has received Ethics Clearance from the participating Universities. Your data will be included into our database in an aggregate format and will be included in such a way that your firm or employees can never be identified. All data collected from participating organisations, as part of the Australian Workplace Index, will remain anonymous and confidential at all times. This project has received research ethics approval from The University of Newcastle and complies with Australia’s National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research. Ref: Approval No. H-2021-0382.

Only the researchers can access the raw data, which is stored securely within high security data servers at the University of Newcastle. All researchers who have received ethical clearance can access participant data.

We will help you through the set-up process by collecting the data we need from you and providing you with the communication templates that you can use with your people to encourage high participation rates and to manage their expectations about what you will do with the data.

Follow the link: https://www.australianworkplaceindex.com.au/contact-us

If it has more than 15 people, then it is eligible.

Once you register, we organise a call back, talk you through the process and answer any questions you may have.

We provide you with guidance and templates to encourage high participation. Beyond that, we do the rest.

Yes.

Approximately two to three weeks. We work with you to ensure we have enough participants to make the benchmarks meaningful.

Call us and we will liaise with your IT people but most businesses have few or no issues.

We can keep the process open and work with you to increase the participation rate.

There is no maximum. Where you have many employees (i.e. in the hundreds) we can break up the population into business units if it makes more sense in interpreting the results.

Securely within servers controlled by the research team.

Raw data summaries are available within minutes once we close the survey. The full results are analysed and provided to you within 15 working days.

We show you areas where your performance can be improved upon.

In the areas where we benchmark performance e.g. productivity, leadership and performance. However because of the unique way we analyse your data, we can segment based on various criteria including gender, education levels, job types and business unit so you get greater insights that can be actionable.

The data is upgraded continuously as more data is added. As more companies participate, the researchers will update the database so new insights can be provided.

The results are analysed and provided to you within 15 working days.

The interactive online dashboard is your interface for querying and accessing the data. It remains open to you and allows you to return to the data and use it again and again.

Where your business is performing well and where there are opportunities to improve.

How your organisation is comparing against the benchmark, where you may have opportunities for improvement and the data can be analysed at a very granular level which means any interventions you decide to implement can be highly targeted.

Work with your leadership team to consider the implications of the results and what you may want to try in order to improve your scores.

Work with your leadership team to consider the implications of the results and what you may want to try in order to improve your scores.

We show you how you compare against a range of businesses and provide meaningful insights against a range of companies and industries.