Run polls and vote

Polls are a quick way to ask a question — "Where should we go for the team outing?" — and see the answers live. HR can create polls, and so can employees unless HR turns that off.

Create a poll

1. Employees: go to Engage → Polls ( open Polls) and click Create poll. You can also use the Poll tab on your Home feed. Admins: go to Engage → Polls in the admin portal ( open Polls) and use the Create a poll card.
2. Enter What is this poll about? (3–300 characters).
3. Enter the Options. You need at least 2 and can have up to 10 — click Add option for more.
4. Choose the date the Poll expires on (today up to one year ahead). Voting stops at the end of that day.
5. Choose Posting to: the whole organisation or a department (employees can pick their own department).
6. Optionally tick Notify employees and Anonymous poll.
7. Click Post poll.

Vote

1. Open Engage → Polls.
2. Click an option to vote. You can change your vote until the poll closes.
3. You see the results after you vote, or once the poll has closed.

Find polls

Filter by search text, who added it, date range, department, location and status (Open / Closed). Tick Exclude polls from wall to hide polls that were posted from the Home feed.

Close or delete a poll

• The person who created a poll, and admins with engage.manage, can Close it early or Delete it (with all its votes).

Let employees create polls (admins)

1. On the admin Polls page, find the Settings card.
2. Tick or untick Employees can create polls.
3. Click Save. When it's off, only HR can create polls.