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Workplace Health Support Study - Employee's

Employee Lived Experience Questionnaire

Purpose

This study explores the experiences of people whose health or disability has affected them at work. We want to understand what people find difficult, what helps them manage well at work, their experiences of workplace conversations and what types of support could be useful.

Please answer based on your own experience.

To Note: Your responses will be treated confidentially and used to support this study and related research and learning.
You do not need to provide your name or any information that identifies you, and you can skip any question you do not wish to answer.
Survey findings will be anonymised and may be used to inform future work, research, project learning and funding applications. Individual responses will not be attributed to you.
If you choose to provide contact details for further involvement, these will be kept private and used only to contact you about this study.

Estimated completion time: 3–5 minutes.
Section A: Your Experience
1.Which best describes your current situation?
For the remaining questions, please think about your current experience or your most recent period when your health made work difficult.
2.When work felt difficult, what were the main things getting in the way?
3.Thinking about that time, how easy or difficult was it to:
1 – Very difficult
2 – Difficult
3 – Neither
4 – Easy
5 – Very easy
Understand what was making work difficult
Work out what might help
4.Looking back, what ONE thing would have helped you most at that point?
Section B: Workplace Conversations
5.If you needed to talk to a manager about how your health was affecting your work, what would help you most before that conversation?
6.What is the SINGLE most important thing a manager could do to support someone whose health is affecting their work?
Section C: Practical Support
7.Which types of support would have been most useful when you first experienced difficulties at work?
Section D: Final Thoughts
8.If you could give us ONE piece of advice about supporting people whose health affects them at work, what would it be?
Continued Involvement – Optional
9.Would you be interested in helping us with further research?