Employee Announcement and Survey Software for GCC Businesses

Share Important Updates and Collect Workforce Feedback in One HR Platform

QuickHCM’s Announcements and Survey module helps HR teams communicate company updates and gather structured employee feedback within the same HCM platform. Publish announcements, direct messages to relevant workforce groups, create employee surveys, review participation, and maintain communication and response records across companies, branches, departments, locations, and employee categories.

Key Features

Company Announcement Publishing

Create and publish internal announcements for company updates, HR notices, policy communications, workplace reminders, events, training information, operational changes, employee recognition, and other workforce messages. Authorized users can maintain the announcement title, message, publication information, audience, and relevant supporting content.

Employee Survey Creation

Create structured surveys to collect employee views on workplace experience, policies, training, communication, facilities, management initiatives, organizational changes, or other approved HR topics. Survey content should be designed around a clear purpose and use appropriate question formats for the information being collected.

Survey Participation and Response Tracking

Monitor configured survey participation and review submitted responses through the HR platform. Authorized users can identify completed, pending, or other available response statuses and follow up according to the organization’s communication process and survey settings.

Targeted Workforce Communication

Direct announcements to relevant employee groups instead of sending every message to the entire workforce. Communication may be organized by company, branch, department, location, role, employee category, or other configured workforce criteria so employees receive information relevant to their work context.

Scheduled Notifications

Pre-schedule announcements or surveys to go live on specific dates—ideal for event reminders, compliance updates, or campaigns.

Bilingual Communication

Organizations across the GCC often communicate with employees from different linguistic and professional backgrounds. QuickHCM can support announcement and survey content in the languages enabled and prepared by the organization, helping HR teams communicate more clearly across companies, branches, departments, roles, and locations.

Business Benefits

Publish workforce updates through a centralized HR communication channel
Direct relevant messages to appropriate companies, branches, departments, locations, roles, or employee groups
Collect structured employee feedback without relying entirely on email or paper forms
Maintain clearer records of announcements, surveys, participation, and available responses
Connect communication activity with employee and organizational information
Give authorized HR teams one place to review internal communication and feedback activity
Support more informed follow-up discussions using documented employee responses

Connected Across QuickHCM

Use employee company, branch, department, role, location, category, and other configured profile information when defining the intended audience for an announcement or survey.
Allow employees to view relevant announcements and participate in assigned surveys through the employee-facing HR environment where enabled.
Use direct or group messaging for shorter operational conversations while keeping formal company announcements and structured surveys within the appropriate communication workflow.
Share training notices, learning reminders, or program updates and collect configured feedback related to employee learning activities.
Use carefully designed surveys for broader workforce feedback while keeping formal employee-performance evaluations within the dedicated appraisal process.
Connect policies, guides, forms, supporting documents, or reference materials with relevant communication workflows where appropriate.
Review configured survey participation, response information, announcement activity, and related workforce communication data.

Engage, Inform & Empower Your Team

See how QuickHCM can help your HR team publish targeted workforce announcements, collect structured employee feedback, review survey participation, maintain communication records, and connect internal communication with employee information and reporting across your GCC operations.

FAQ's

Q1: What is an announcements and survey module in an HR system?

An announcements and survey module helps organizations distribute internal employee messages and collect workforce feedback within the same HR platform. HR teams can publish company updates, select relevant employee audiences, create surveys, monitor participation, review available responses, and maintain communication records. QuickHCM connects these activities with employee profiles, self-service, chat, training, performance, documents, and reporting workflows.

Q2: What types of announcements can HR publish?

HR teams can use internal announcements for company news, policy updates, workplace notices, events, training information, operational changes, employee reminders, recognition messages, and other approved workforce communication. The content should be accurate, relevant to the selected audience, and reviewed before publication. Formal policy communication may require separate acknowledgement or document workflows rather than relying only on an announcement.

Q3: Can QuickHCM target announcements to specific employee groups?

Yes. Announcements can be directed to relevant workforce groups using configured organizational and employee information, such as company, branch, department, location, role, or employee category. This helps HR teams avoid distributing every message to the whole organization. Audience options depend on the employee data and targeting fields enabled in the organization’s QuickHCM configuration.

Q4: Can QuickHCM create employee surveys?

Yes. QuickHCM can support structured employee surveys for workplace feedback, HR initiatives, training, communication, facilities, policies, employee experience, organizational changes, and other approved topics. Survey questions should be clear, neutral, and connected with a defined purpose. The organization should also decide who can participate, who can access results, and how response data will be used.

Q5: Can employee survey responses be anonymous?

This depends on the survey configuration and the platform’s enabled settings. Organizations should confirm exactly what respondent information administrators can access before describing a survey as anonymous. Where responses remain identifiable, the survey should be described as confidential or restricted-access rather than anonymous. Employees should be informed clearly about response visibility and intended use before participating.

Q6: Can announcements and surveys support multilingual workforces?

QuickHCM can support communication content in the languages enabled and prepared by the organization. This can help GCC businesses communicate with diverse workforce groups more clearly. Multilingual support should not be confused with automatic translation unless that functionality is specifically enabled and verified. Employers remain responsible for reviewing the accuracy and meaning of every language version.

Q7: How can organizations use employee survey results responsibly?

Survey results should be reviewed in context, including participation levels, question design, workforce representation, and the possibility of misunderstood or incomplete responses. They can help identify themes that deserve further investigation, but should not be treated as conclusive evidence by themselves. Organizations should protect respondent information, limit result access, and communicate appropriate follow-up where possible.

Q8: Does publishing an announcement prove employees have read it?

Not necessarily. Publishing an announcement confirms that the message was made available through the configured system, but it does not automatically prove that every employee read, understood, or accepted it. Important policies or mandatory communications may require a separate acknowledgement, confirmation, training, document, or manager follow-up process depending on the organization’s requirements.

Q9: Can QuickHCM support communication across multiple GCC locations?

Yes. QuickHCM can support internal communication across companies, branches, departments, roles, locations, and employee groups in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and the wider GCC. Organizations can use configured workforce information to direct messages and surveys to relevant audiences. Content, privacy, permissions, and record-retention settings should be managed according to company policy and applicable requirements.

Q10: What announcement and survey reports can HR review?

Authorized users can review the information available within the configured module, such as published announcements, intended audiences, survey activity, participation, response status, and collected feedback. Reporting options depend on the fields, permissions, survey settings, and dashboards enabled in the organization’s QuickHCM environment. Survey reporting should always respect employee privacy and internal access rules.

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