UCAR conducts all-staff Workplace Culture Surveys every four years, administered and analyzed by an external company. The first was conducted in Spring 2017, and the second in Spring 2021.

The goals of these surveys are to better understand the workplace environment and experience for our staff, to get recommendations from expert consultants in ways to create a more supportive, effective, and welcoming culture throughout the organization, and to measure the effectiveness of the actions put in place in response to those recommendations. In doing so, we create environments where our staff can thrive and conduct better scientific research and operational support. 

As an organization, we advocate for transparency around ACO work and we encourage other organizations to use our survey questions to conduct similar studies at your own workplaces. We welcome mutual opportunities to benchmark surveys across different organizations in our community and to learn from each others' successes and challenges. If you are interested in talking more about anything related to our culture survey results, please contact oaco@ucar.edu.

View the 2017 Culture Survey information.

View the 2021 Culture Survey information, including comparisons to 2017.