Employee engagement software

Boost employee engagement, productivity and retention. People First gives HR leaders the tools to listen to employees, gather insight and take meaningful action, creating a workplace where people feel heard.

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Employee survey management dashboard for creating, scheduling, and managing engagement and wellbeing surveys
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Performance management dashboard showing employee check-ins, goals, ratings and AI-generated meeting summaries

Keep your workforce engaged

Engaged employees are more productive, motivated and likely to stay, meaning fewer skill gaps in your organization. Yet many businesses still rely on annual surveys and anecdotal feedback to understand how employees really feel.

People First’s employee engagement software gives HR teams continuous visibility into engagement. With real-time pulse surveys and AI-powered sentiment analysis, you can spot disengagement before it turns into attrition.

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Pulse surveys & AI insights

Run short, frequent pulse surveys to track employee sentiment over time. Set custom cadences, target specific teams, and view results on a live dashboard.

AI analyses open-text responses to surface emerging risks like burnout, morale dips, and recurring themes, helping you act early without manually reviewing every response. Results can be compared automatically against industry benchmarks.

Recognition & rewards

Make appreciation visible and meaningful across your organization. Employees can nominate peers directly in the platform, while managers award recognition aligned to company values using points-based rewards.  

Work anniversaries, birthdays, and promotions are surfaced automatically, ensuring no achievement or milestone goes unnoticed and no manual tracking is required.

Social feed & communities

Bring people together in a workplace newsfeed that feels genuinely human. Share company announcements, team updates, and employee posts in one scrollable space. Interest-based and resource communities help distributed teams connect, build belonging, and stay engaged across locations and roles.

Employee journey feedback

Capture structured feedback at every key moment of the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, early tenure milestones, promotions, and exit.  

Understand how experiences change over time and identify patterns across teams, roles, and locations so HR and leaders can make informed improvements throughout the employee journey.

Benefits & engagement insights

Give employees easy access to their benefits through a digital wallet, benefits card, and mobile self-service app for managing FSA, HSA, HRA, and pre-tax accounts.  

HR teams benefit from automated ACA and COBRA compliance, while managers and leaders get clear engagement dashboards showing survey results, sentiment trends, benchmarks, and recommended actions in one accessible view.

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Team performance insights dashboard displaying check-in completion rates, sentiment trends, and AI-generated manager summaries

One platform for HR, engagement & performance

While point solutions give you an engagement tool, People First gives you an engagement layer built into your entire HR system. When a pulse survey flags a disengaged employee, their manager can see their performance goals, last check-in, and learning progress all in the same platform. No switching tools. No data silos. No guessing whether the information is current.

Optional modules let you start with engagement and scale across the platform as your needs grow, connecting HR, payroll, benefits, workforce management and learning and development. 

FAQs

Why do organizations need employee engagement software?

Employee engagement software gives organizations a consistent way to listen to employees, understand how engagement changes over time, and respond before issues lead to burnout or attrition. Rather than relying on gut instinct or infrequent surveys, HR teams can manage engagement as an ongoing, measurable part of the employee experience.

How does AI Sentiment Analysis work?

People First’s AI sentiment analysis reviews open‑text survey responses and feedback to identify recurring themes and emotional signals. This helps HR teams understand what’s driving engagement, spot potential burnout risks earlier, and prioritize areas that need attention without manually analyzing large volumes of comments.

How does the software support remote and hybrid teams?

Employee engagement looks different in distributed environments. People First helps remote and hybrid teams stay connected through shared updates, recognition and community spaces, alongside integrations with everyday collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams, Slack and Zoom.

Can we customize surveys and recognition for different teams?

Yes. Pulse survey cadences, survey questions, recognition categories, and award types are all configurable by department, location, role, or seniority level. Recognition is tied to your company values, not a generic template.

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