Employee Wellness Survey Questions: A Practical Template

A workplace wellness survey should help you choose a feasible activity, not create a health profile of your staff. Focus on work patterns, interests, barriers, preferred duration and local time windows. Ask only for information that will change a planning decision.

Sources checked October 15, 2026 · Free employer planning guide

Turn answers into one scheduling decision

Fictional summary: 18 of 30 respondents prefer a lunchtime slot, but six cannot attend then. Test the popular slot and investigate a second route for those six; the survey response count is not a forecast of attendance.

Use the survey

Copy the questions into your approved survey tool and describe its actual privacy settings.

Open the employee survey

The employee needs survey

This is a copyable template, not a survey submitted to BarreWorkout. Use your approved survey tool and explain its real privacy settings.

1. Which work arrangement best describes you?

Response options: Office / remote / hybrid / varies / prefer not to say.

Use the answer to plan: Choose delivery formats; do not request a team name if that would identify respondents.

2. Which optional activities would you consider?

Response options: Short movement break / longer fitness class / walking / stretching or mobility / another activity / none.

Use the answer to plan: Measure interest before selecting a format; include an opt-out.

3. What would make joining difficult?

Response options: Time / workload or coverage / schedule / privacy / space / equipment / format does not interest me / another reason / prefer not to say.

Use the answer to plan: Choose one fix to test; do not require medical details.

4. Which durations could fit an authorized break?

Response options: 5–10 / 15 / 30 minutes / none / unsure.

Use the answer to plan: These are planning options, not published BarreWorkout services.

5. Which days and local time windows could work?

Response options: Select days and windows, plus time zone; allow none.

Use the answer to plan: Count demand by time zone; ask managers about feasibility separately.

6. How would you prefer to join?

Response options: Live group / self-directed recording / written guide / no preference / would not join.

Use the answer to plan: Only offer formats after capability and privacy review.

7. Which setup would be easiest?

Response options: Seated / standing / a choice of both / space for floor work / prefer not to say.

Use the answer to plan: Identify access design needs without soliciting diagnoses.

8. What participation options matter to you?

Response options: Captions or written instructions / camera optional / private way to request support / another preference / prefer not to say.

Use the answer to plan: Do not promise an accommodation until its delivery is confirmed.

9. What would make the activity worthwhile to you?

Response options: Enjoyable break / learning movement skills / connection / exercise consistency / something else / none.

Use the answer to plan: Set participant-centered aims without leading answers about productivity.

10. Is there anything else you want the planner to know?

Response options: Optional free text. Ask respondents not to include medical or identifying details.

Use the answer to plan: Review themes; suppress small identifiable groups in shared reports.

Ask questions you can act on

Before sending the survey, explain who can read responses, whether answers are identifiable and how long they will be kept. Do not describe a survey as anonymous merely because it omits a name: combinations of role, location and work schedule can identify someone in a small team.

Use this ten-question template

Copy the questions below into your approved survey tool and adjust the available options to what you can realistically provide. Allow people to skip questions and include 'none' or 'prefer not to say' where appropriate.

Suggested introduction: 'We are considering optional workplace wellbeing activities and want to understand what would fit your workday. You may skip any question. Please do not include medical or identifying details in free-text answers. We will explain how responses are handled before collecting them.'

Turn answers into a schedule

Compare interest in each format with feasible attendance windows. Preserve the time zone attached to every local time; 12:30 in New York and 12:30 in Los Angeles are different opportunities. Check actual calendar dates when daylight-saving changes affect teams.

A popular preference is not a reservation. Confirm coverage and instructor availability before announcing a class. Where there is little overlap, compare repeated sessions or another format rather than assuming everyone can attend one lunchtime.

Close the feedback loop

Tell employees what you learned and what decision it informed, without sharing identifiable responses. Explain when the next check-in will happen. Keep a separate voluntary contact step if people want follow-up, instead of automatically attaching their email to an otherwise anonymous survey.

The template is available without signing up. BarreWorkout’s employer interest form is a separate company inquiry; it is not an employee survey and it does collect the contact email and company details shown on that form.

Sources and scope

General information for employer planning. Provider descriptions are their own published offerings, not independent performance ratings. No named medical review or product test is implied.

CCOHS: sample workplace wellness survey — Government practical reference; Canadian context

Make the next decision

Considering movement for your team?

Tell us the formats and times you would like. Corporate availability and pricing are in planning; submitting interest makes no booking.