Return to office questions that show what makes the trip worth it
Ask employees how office days are working, from how many days feel right to booking a desk. Each question below comes with when to ask it and what the answer tells you.
What return to office survey questions tell you
Return to office survey questions ask employees how office days work in practice: how often they come in, how they feel about the number expected, what brings them in and what makes a day worth the commute. A policy sets the days, and the answers show whether those days go to the things that need an office, such as time with the team.
Ask a month after a new policy starts and again each quarter. Pick six to eight questions and share the link in your own email or team chat with anonymous responses on, which store no user ID, traits or visitor ID for website, link or QR code surveys, since views on office days can be sensitive. A QR code at reception catches people on an office day.
Each written answer is read as it arrives and filed under a category and a theme from your own list, such as desks, commute or meetings, with a sentiment and an urgency. The points split and the ranking turn those themes into a short list for facilities and team leads.
- Questions
- 14
- Best asked
- A month after the policy starts, then quarterly
- Industry
- HR and employees
- Where to find them
- From library in the Usertick survey editor, on every plan
The 14 returning to the office questions, with when to ask each
Grouped by what they tell you. Use them as they are or change the wording.
Office days today
Start with how often people come in, how they feel about it and who decides, so the rest of the answers can be read against the real pattern.
- 01Multiple choice
How many days a week are you in the office now?
Office days per week as they really are, from none to five. Results shows the share of each; compare it with the policy to see where it holds and where it doesn't.
- 02Multiple choice
How do you feel about the number of office days expected?
How people feel about the number of office days expected, on five options. Select the far too many answers in Results to read what those employees say would make the trip worth it.
- 10Dropdown
Who decides which days you come in?
Who sets the office days. Results shows the share of each; when days change week to week for many people, teams will struggle to plan time together.
- 13Emoji
How do you feel about being back in the office?
How people feel about being back, on a row of faces. Ask it near the start; Results shows the share for each face and the change from the last quarter.
What makes the trip worth it
These questions show what people come in for, in a list, a ranking, a points split and their own words, which tells you what to plan office days around.
- 03Multiple choice
What brings you into the office?
Lets people tick every reason they come in. Results shows a bar per reason; a large share that comes in only because it is required means office days aren't offering much yet.
- 07Ranking
Rank what makes an office day worth it
Employees rank five things that make an office day worth it. Results shows the average place per item; when having the team in ranks first, plan shared team days.
- 14Points allocation
Split 100 points across what a good office day gives you
Employees split 100 points across what a good office day gives them. Results shows the average points per item, showing how much each matters, where the ranking only shows the order.
- 04Text
What would make a day in the office worth the trip?
An open question about a worthwhile office day. Answers name concrete things, from team days to better desks, and the themes in Results show which come up most often.
Desks, rooms and the day itself
Ask about desks, booking, meetings and productivity to find the practical problems facilities and team leads can fix first.
- 06Yes / No
Can you find a desk when you arrive without booking one?
A yes or no on finding a desk without booking. A low share of yes on busy days tells facilities the desk count is short or the booking rules aren't followed.
- 08Customer effort
How easy is it to book a desk or a room?
An effort score (CES) for booking a desk or a room, on a seven-point scale. Results shows the average and the share who found it easy; a low share points to the booking tool.
- 11Number
How many hours of an office day go to meetings?
Hours of an office day spent in meetings, from 0 to 10. Results shows the median and the middle half; a high median next to a low productivity score suggests meetings crowd out focus work.
- 05Big scale
How productive is an office day compared with a day at home?
Office productivity compared with home, from 1 to 10. Results shows the average and a column per step; read it by role, since focus work and team work can give very different answers.
- 09This or that
On an office day you would rather have
Two trade-offs side by side: a quiet desk or a seat near the team, a free lunch or a shorter day. Results shows a split bar per pair, which helps you plan the floor.
- 12Text
What would you change about the office itself?
An open question about the office itself: light, noise, desks, food. Hand these themes to facilities, separate from the policy feedback in the other open question.
Tips for asking about returning to the office
Small choices that get honest, useful answers.
- 01
Ask how office days work
Keep the questions on what happens in the office and how to improve it. A policy debate inside the survey gives you strong feelings and few fixes.
- 02
Plan team days around answers
When people come in for their team, agree shared office days per team and check the ranking again next quarter.
- 03
Reach people on office days
Put the survey's QR code at reception and in the kitchen, and share the link in team chat for people who are home that day.
- 04
Fix booking and desks first
Desk and room problems are the quickest wins. Give each one an owner in the inbox and report the fix to the team.
Add these questions to a survey
From the library to the first answers.
- 1
Open the library
In the Usertick survey editor, choose From library, filter by industry and topic, and add several questions at once.
- 2
Or paste your own list
Paste questions reads up to 10 questions from any text on Free, 100 on Starter and 200 on Pro and above, keeps your wording and picks an answer type for each.
- 3
Choose where it runs
Show the survey on your website, send it by email, share its link and QR code, or switch it to a conversation.
- 4
Read the answers
Results counts every score and choice, and Usertick reads each written answer and files it by topic, on every plan.
Templates and more questions about returning to the office
Full surveys that ask about the same things, and neighboring topics in the library.
Templates
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About a month after a new office policy starts, then once a quarter. Keep the same core questions so each card in Results compares with the period before.
Six to eight. Start with office days now, how people feel about the number expected, what brings them in and the open question on a worthwhile day.
Yes, by link or on the website. With anonymous responses on, Usertick stores no user ID, traits or visitor ID for website, link or QR code surveys. Surveys sent through Usertick email are not anonymous.
Yes, with logic to skip the desk and booking questions for anyone who answers None to office days. Their reasons for staying home matter as much as the feedback on the office.
Yes. The question library comes with every plan, the free plan included, and the free plan covers 150 responses a month across your surveys.
Yes. Once a question is in your survey, reword it, change its options or its answer type, and add logic to skip it for some answers.
Yes. The library is translated into Usertick's built-in languages, and in any other language it shows in English for you to translate.
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