Your employees know who they are. They don’t need you to tell them.

Our People First Demographic Tool captures the nuanced and complex identities of your workforce while ensuring safe and confidential data collection for all employees. Put simply, employees are able to anonymously self-report their demographics through a brief set of open-ended questions. The Tool will use this information to populate a full report of aggregate data on your company’s demographic makeup while maintaining the anonymity of your employees’ information. You can demo our tool here.

How it works:

1) Getting Started: We’ll evaluate your company’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) progress and goals and create a plan to incorporate demographic data collection into your company’s DEI strategy.

2) Tool Launch: We’ll devise a timeline to launch and close the tool and assist with employee education on Holistic’s role and our secure data collection methods.

3) Reporting: Post-survey close, we’ll compile a report of aggregate data and discuss major themes, insights, and strategies for DEI success while keeping complete anonymity of participants’ responses.

4) Ongoing Integration: To keep your demographic data up-to-date, we’ll help you integrate the Demographic Tool into your new hire process and will provide regular updates to your reporting tool.

FAQs

First, we’ll evaluate your company’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) progress and goals and create a plan to incorporate demographic data collection into your company’s DEI strategy. We’ll devise a timeline to launch and close the tool and assist with employee education on Holistic’s role and our secure data collection methods. Post-survey close, we’ll compile a report of aggregate data and discuss major themes, insights, and strategies for DEI success. To keep your demographic data up-to-date, we’ll help you integrate the Demographic Tool into your new hire process and will provide regular updates to your reporting tool.

We believe in self-identification and empowering employees to make informed decisions about the data they share with their employer. One benefit of a third-party data steward is the peace-of-mind that employees aren’t reporting their personal information to their employer, they’re sharing it with a consulting firm who values their privacy. Holistic can assist the company with communications to staff around the survey and help to frame the methodology and rationale. Employees can rest assured that all of their responses will remain confidential and only aggregate, non-identifying data will be shared with employers. Employees are welcome to share all information they are comfortable with providing, even if some demographics are excluded.

+ How does Holistic ensure employee privacy?

The tools and surveys we administer are kept with utmost care towards protecting employee confidentiality. All Holistic survey data is owned and secured by Holistic and only used in macro/aggregate for reporting purposes. Employers will not recieve raw or identifiable employee data. To learn more about Holistic’s security and confidentiality and anonymity protocol, please click here. Additionally, we work closely with our partners at Finch and HavocShield to ensure that data privacy and security is a top priority.

+ Why does the survey use open-ended questions?

Existing surveying methods are limited in their capacity to capture intersecting identities, i.e. how race, gender, class, sexual orientation, and other identities overlap and interact. People are confined to identify in a certain manner that fits a mold, and this is often even more limiting for people in marginalized groups. We want to shift the paradigm of how people are able to identify in company reporting. To learn more about our stance on this, read our blog post here.

+ What does the tool have to do with employee experience?

Collecting demographic data is the first step to understanding your company’s current landscape. Without accurate and up-to-date demographic data, it is difficult to determine your company’s baseline and potential benchmarks for success. The demographic makeup of a company helps set the stage for a number of employee experience-related initiatives and challenges, such as Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), retention, policies and benefits, compensation equity, and more. When connected with other Holistic tools, the Holistic Demographic Tool can be used to analyze patterns in hiring, advancement, compensation, and termination across self-identified identities.

+ How does the Demographic Tool interact with other data our company provides to Holistic?

This information can be used to inform other Holistic tools to collaboratively assess and reassess your organization’s DEI journey. It all serves as the backbone to our DEI philosophy, which centers on measuring, analyzing, improving and growing.