---
title: 'Stay Survey'
description: 'Helps understand what keeps employees at the company and which issues may weaken their desire to stay.'
type: template
locale: en
canonical: 'https://app.teal.band/en/templates/stay'
---

# Stay Survey

Helps understand what keeps employees at the company and which issues may weaken their desire to stay.

## When to use

You want to retain key employees before they start looking for a new job. You are running a preventative diagnostic to understand what keeps people (which needs to be reinforced) and what causes doubts (which needs to be fixed right now).

## Key facts

- **Categories:** 6
- **Questions:** 16
- **Respondent:** Employee from the selected cohort
- **Topic:** Lifecycle and retention

## What it diagnoses

- **Intention to stay:** The overall direction of the intention to continue working at the company over the next 3-6 months.
- **Reasons to stay:** What makes continuing to work valuable for the employee: the work, the role, the team, contribution, conditions, and accumulated benefits.
- **Internal reasons to leave:** Shows which working conditions within the company push employees to leave.
- **Growth, recognition, and fairness:** Shows whether employees see prospects, recognition of their contribution, and a fair exchange with the company.
- **Manager and belonging:** Trust in the manager, safety in discussing problems, and connection with the team as reasons for staying.
- **Alternatives and exit activation:** To what extent external opportunities and readiness to consider a move lower the barrier to leaving.

## Example questions

- Over the next 3-6 months, I see my work future in this company.
  - **Scale:** Disagree — Agree
  - **Clarification:** What most gets in the way of seeing your near-term work future here?
- Right now, my decision to continue working at the company feels stable.
  - **Scale:** Disagree — Agree
  - **Clarification:** What is making you reconsider your decision to stay most right now?
- I can name a specific reason why it is valuable for me to continue working here right now.
  - **Scale:** Disagree — Agree
  - **Clarification:** What is currently missing for continuing to work here to feel valuable?

## What the report contains

The report will show employees’ current intention to stay with the company, highlight key retention anchors, and identify risk factors. You will see how growth, the manager, and internal friction affect the desire to leave, and how open people are to external offers.

## Similar templates

- [Onboarding 30](https://app.teal.band/en/templates/onboarding_30.md) — Helps assess how clearly a new employee understands their role and whether they have enough access, support, and initial work guidance.
- [Exit Survey](https://app.teal.band/en/templates/exit.md) — Helps gently capture the reasons for leaving and understand which aspects of the work experience are important to improve for future employees.