Remote Work Survey

Organizations that have introduced or expanded remote work arrangements often have limited visibility into how the policy is actually experienced by the people living it. Productivity perceptions vary by role and personality. Challenges differ between departments. Preferences about the future of remote work range widely. Without a consistent, structured way to collect this feedback, decisions about hybrid and remote work policy are made on anecdote rather than data.

The Remote Work Survey template for SharePoint, built with Infowise Ultimate Forms, provides a comprehensive survey that captures employee experience, attitudes, and recommendations across every dimension of remote work — from practical setup and technology tools through to productivity ratings, team connection, and policy preferences — with every response stored in SharePoint as a consistent, comparable record.

How it works

Employee context

The survey captures the respondent's full name, job title, department, and email address alongside two baseline questions — how long they have been working remotely and how many days per week they currently work remotely. This context enables HR and leadership to segment responses by tenure, frequency of remote work, department, and role — identifying whether experience and attitudes vary meaningfully across different employee groups.

Workspace and technology

The survey asks whether the employee has a dedicated workspace at home and what technology tools they rely on for remote work. These practical questions identify infrastructure gaps — employees without adequate workspace or appropriate tools — that affect productivity regardless of attitude toward remote work itself.

Advantages and challenges

Two open-ended questions ask respondents to describe the main advantages they perceive in working remotely and the main challenges they face. These qualitative responses provide the specific, actionable insight that structured ratings cannot — identifying recurring themes across the workforce that inform practical policy improvements rather than simply measuring sentiment.

Team connection and communication

A dedicated question asks how the employee stays connected with their team while working remotely. This captures the range of practices employees have developed — formal and informal — and identifies where team connection is working well and where it is breaking down.

Productivity and satisfaction ratings

A structured evaluation section captures rated responses across six dimensions: overall perception of remote work's positive impact, preference for office-based work, willingness to recommend remote work, happiness with the current arrangement, self-assessed productivity, and comfort openly expressing concerns. Rated on consistent scales, these dimensions provide HR with aggregatable data on employee sentiment that is directly comparable across individuals, departments, and time periods.

Policy preferences and additional comments

Two forward-looking questions ask respondents what aspects of remote work they would like to see retained in the future and what aspects of on-site work they would like to see improved or changed. A free-form additional comments field gives employees the opportunity to raise anything not captured by the structured questions. Together, these sections transform the survey from a satisfaction measurement into a practical input for hybrid work policy design.

What you get

• A comprehensive remote work survey covering workspace setup, technology tools, advantages, challenges, team connection, and productivity
• Structured evaluation section with six rated dimensions enabling aggregatable, comparable sentiment data
• Open-ended sections for advantages, challenges, and policy preferences providing actionable qualitative insight
• Forward-looking questions on what employees want retained from remote work and improved in on-site work
• Every response stored as a structured, searchable record in a standard SharePoint list — filterable by department, role, or remote work frequency
• Configurable questions and rating dimensions to match your organization's specific hybrid work policy priorities
• Free for all Ultimate Forms customers, installed automatically with a single click

Built on standard SharePoint lists

The Remote Work Survey system is built entirely on standard SharePoint lists. There is no external data storage and no custom interface. All survey responses stay inside your SharePoint environment, governed by your existing permissions and data policies. The system can be extended or adapted at any time in the browser by the administrator who manages the site.