How frequently do members conduct org-wide employee engagement surveys? We currently do one annual and then a shorter check-in half-way through the year.

We are still in early days of setting up our ongoing engagement strategy but our plan moving forward will be to conduct them every second year.

Every 2 years to give enough time to show results of action planning and as from next year, we will add pulse checks that a manager can launch for his/her own team to check on progress per the actions and feedback ('I am acting on what you told me')

One big annual one. I wish we did shorter quarterly ones.

Engagement survey annually.  Short organizational health check pulse survey mid-way through the year. 

Surveys should be part of an overall communications strategy for assessing and improving employee engagement. With this approach, I have found that an annual employee engagement survey supports the ability to measure and improve in key areas. Other supporting elements include ad hoc focus groups, check-ins, quick surveys, business updates, skip levels, targeted chat groups, etc. Surveys are great but you must invest time in design, improvement, change management, and process controls between surveys to be worthwhile.