“We think that for all the progress we have made, we’re still at the beginning of actually delivering on that employee experience,” he added. Skills Coach was designed to fit into busy workdays and its usage has tripled over the past year, he added. “The experience that employees have is the thing we want to up-level, but the way we want to do it and what we’re focused on is lifting managers’ capability to delivery that employee experience,” Elzinga said. This allows companies to see how their employee engagement compares to others in the same space.Īnother feature, Skills Coach, is based on behavioral science research and helps managers develop “soft skills” through two-minute interactive exercises that are delivered by Slack or email. To help companies act on the results they get, Culture Amp provides what it calls an “Inspiration Engine,” or practices that have worked for other companies.īecause Culture Amp works with a large group of employers, it is able to create benchmarks by industry, size and region. Surveys are answered anonymously and data is aggregated to protect the privacy of individual employees. To understand the pandemic’s impact, the platform introduced well-being templates, asking if employees are feeling overwhelmed, how they feel about messaging from company leaders and gauging their willingness to return to the office.Įqtble, a platform that uses data analytics to create healthier workplaces, raises $2.7M seed Clients have access to surveys created with behavioral psychologists, including ones designed to see if women, people of color or people who use English as a second language are feeling disengaged and, if so, how to help them. Over the past year and a half, employers have dealt with two major issues: a remote workforce coping with the COVID-19 pandemic and growing calls for diversity, equity and inclusion.Ĭulture Amp saw more employers addressing DEI in surveys for example, the number of companies who asked employees questions like whether they “build teams that are diverse” increased about 30% in 2020. Elzinga added that the raise also gives Culture Amp a war chest to spend on acquisitions. It is also growing in Europe, so some of its new funding will be used on its dual data centers. Culture Amp launched in Australia, and about two-thirds of its revenue comes from the United States. The company still has most of its funds from its Series E, but the new round will allow it to “work at a whole other level of scale,” Elzinga said. “I think for a long time, the HR space and HR tech space have been viewed as not that interesting or important, but what we see now is that people are the most important thing that most companies have, so what can we do to craft their experiences? I think it’s a really interesting step for the space as a whole, for an organization like Culture Amp to have made it to this level of revenue, fundraising and valuation.” Culture Amp recently held a virtual version of Culture First, its annual event, with over 20,000 participants.įounder and chief executive officer Didier Elzinga told TechCrunch that he sees Culture Amp’s Series F as a “validation of the HR space in general.” It also has a sizable online community where users can connect and book workshops, including ones run by diversity, equity and inclusion experts. The theme is inspired by UNESCO’s Key Ideas around culture and sustainable development: “If achieving sustainability is first and foremost about making an appropriate use of the planet’s resources, then culture must be at the centre of our development strategies, since cultures frame people’s relationship to others in their society and the world around them, including the natural environment, and condition their behaviours.Employee survey startup Culture Amp closes $82M round led by Sequoia Chinaįrom its start as a survey platform, Culture Amp has grown to encompass analytics for managers, like turnover prediction and team goal tracking. What are our accountabilities as designers to ensure we are appropriately using our planet’s resources? In our increasingly interconnected global community, how do we enable local cultures to be resilient and sustainable? What does it mean to create a culture of sustainability? This year’s theme challenges the interaction design community to explore their impact on culture and sustainability in their work, workplace, communities, and beyond. Questions that came up relating to this topic include: This year’s IxDD theme is Culture and Sustainability. As we look to the future through the lens of the new decade, we want to demonstrate how interaction design mines different contexts and geographies to improve our shared human condition.
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