How do you rapidly deploy an employee COVID-19 survey when the rules of the game are changing faster than you can track? There are several possibilities.

Paper? It doesn't work if the form changes or you have multiple locations and work from home.

PDF? You can't easily automate organizing and summarizing the results.

Email? Easy to do, but tracking the answers requires extra effort.

The answer is in the cloud.

We used cloud services to prompt employees by SMS text messages or email to complete a survey of important pandemic information regardless of work location.

The results are automatically compiled and reports created indicating employees that are reporting symptoms or exposure, tracks whether employees have completed the survey each day, and allows for different responses depending on conditions.

Clients control their own surveys, employee lists, and prompt schedules. Settings allow custom subjects and messages. Surveys are configured to pre-populate forms with employee data, questions can dynamically change based on the previous answers, and reports are automatically rolled up by day.

Reports track compliance and COVID-19 status allowing rapid response by management.

With just hours from concept to delivery, we were able to customize and deploy surveys for several clients using cloud services, custom software, and multiple delivery methods.

The same day we decided to use Ferox's automated COVID-19 survey we were sending out texts and getting surveys back. We could watch the results come in live and show up in the reports.

It doesn't matter if the employee works in the field, in the office, or from home, we have the information required, automatically compiled by 9am every morning.

Because Ferox handles all of our IT for a single monthly contract amount, we didn't have to pay any extra.

Best of all, with the system in place, we can relax because we know we have the information we need to comply with state employee tracking requirements for as long as they are in place.