No obligation · Free initial consultation · Vancouver-based team
Employee research that tells you where your workplace culture stands, and how to move towards where you want it to be.
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Most leaders have a vision of how their organization should run from the inside, and the workplace that is needed to do so. But so often that vision doesn’t match what their employees actually experience in their day-to-day roles, and closing this gap is the lifeblood of any organization to meet its goals.
We design studies that measure the gap between the culture you envision and the one your employees feel. Then we identify your priority opportunities to strengthen employee retention, performance, and your reputation as an employer in your market.
Our studies are built around the decision you want to make. A company going through restructuring needs different questions than an established team trying to understand how to keep their best people for years to come.
Our senior researchers run every phase, so the person who understands your company culture is the same person analyzing the results and presenting them to you and your leadership team.
Many employee research projects start with one of these situations.
Your business may be doing great and you can’t afford any turnover from the great team you have. Or maybe you are noticing people don’t appear as happy or as motivated as they once were. Or maybe you just aren’t sure and need a check-in. Getting feedback in the right way can make the difference between costly turnover or disengagement vs. attracting and keeping the best team possible for years to come.
The annual survey says people are satisfied. But output, missed targets, slipping deadlines and manager feedback say something else. Somewhere between what employees report and what they do, something is not lining up, and you need to find out where.
There is a trend of your employees leaving, or you feel one may be coming. Or maybe you feel secure with your people but want to make sure you keep it that way. Making the small investment to get to know how your people are feeling and what may move the needle in the future can be the most important decision you ever make in keeping your team of star rowers in your boat.
Your company values are framed on the wall and in the recruiting deck. Whether they show up in how decisions get made, how people are treated and how work actually gets done is a different question. Your employees already know the answer, and they tell each other. We help you see it too.
You are considering a merger, a new leadership team or a move to a different operating model. These are massive decisions, and the people who will live with them have not been asked yet. Should you make the move before you hear from them?
You may have interest in hiring people with skills and experience that match what you need, but what is the market’s perception of working at your firm? Do people recognize your firm as a place they would want to work? What aspects is your company known for as the best in class, and what aspects do you want to be known for but aren’t? And how does this compare to your competitors?
Each of these can be a standalone study or one component of a larger program. Many projects combine a few. Whether its surveys, focus groups, interviews, or a different methodology, we always start by listening to your objectives and then figure out what type of study is best.
Measures how your employees experience working for you and what drives their commitment. Is it leadership, recognition, career development, communication or wellbeing? This can be a full engagement survey, shorter pulse checks throughout the year, or something in between. You get a clear picture of where you stand, what matters most to your people, and a map of the priority areas that will improve retention and performance.
Defines the gap between the culture you describe and the culture your employees live in every day. We combine surveys with interviews and focus groups across levels and departments to find where your stated values match behaviour, where they do not and which subcultures exist inside the organization that you may not know about. The output is a clear picture of your current culture, what is working and where to focus to bring it closer to the culture you want.
Evaluates whether your current structure, roles, and workflows are built for where the business is heading, or for where it used to be. This is often the study behind a restructure, a merger, a leadership change, or a shift in operating model. You get an evidence-based view of what should change, what should stay, and how to bring your people along with it (before the changes are announced, not after).
While checking in with employees is important during their tenure at the company, doing so at the beginning and end can provide insights that are equally important. Whether its onboarding interviews or exit interviews, these can both be crucial in learning how best to retain your important employees in the long term. Where our firm can make the biggest difference is the questions we ask and how we ask them. We get to know your company, its purpose and its vision before we ask anything, and then our experienced interviewers ensure the right questions are asked in a way that elicits the open and honest feedback needed to give you the insights that will make a difference.
This assessment collects opinions from real people working in your industry about how they perceive the experience of working at your company. As a valuable recruitment tool and competitive advantage, this study provides insights into what others perceive to be your top strengths, weaknesses, how this compares to your competitors, and what is truly most important to your audience of interest when considering their next career move. This can be a wide-ranging industry scan, or a more focussed assessment catered towards a specific role, level of seniority, geographic area, etc. This study provides a blueprint for your company to boost its reputation in the areas that matter most to you, through whatever lens you need.
We take the whole thing: designing the study, recruiting and fielding it, running the analysis, and delivering findings and presenting to your team. Senior researchers handle every phase, with no hand-offs to junior staff partway through.
If you already have the study designed, or the data collected, or a team that just needs an extra pair of hands at one stage, we come in for that piece alone. Questionnaire design, fieldwork management, data processing, analysis, reporting. Any single stage or any combination.
Bad data does not announce itself. It looks like findings. Every study we run is screened for the things that quietly corrupt a dataset: duplicate and fraudulent respondents, speeders, straight-liners, and inconsistent answering. You should be able to act on what we hand you, which means being certain the underlying data is real.
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No pressure, no jargon — just a conversation about your research objectives and how we’d approach them.
No obligation · Free initial consultation · Vancouver-based team
Ethan spent his career inside the research industry — from the ground level at boutique consultancies to executive roles at large multinationals by his late twenties. That breadth of experience gave him a front-row seat to a growing problem: the value clients received from their research was declining, while costs and timelines were not.
He watched senior experts get pulled off projects and replaced by junior analysts behind the scenes. He saw unvetted AI being used to cut corners. He saw data quality eroding. The industry was optimising for its own margins, not its clients’ outcomes.
So he founded the Bondar Group Consulting on a simple principle: companies deserve better value from their research company. Every engagement is led by senior researchers. Every study is custom-designed. And the goal is always the same — insights your team can actually act on.
Our ability to gather open and honest feedback from employees is one of the main reasons companies bring us in. Employees are far more likely to be honest with an independent third party than with their own people. Responses are always kept confidential, reported in aggregate, and this is communicated to your employees before they answer anything – participation rates depend on it.
But further, they are more likely to open up with us because of how we design and ask our questions. We design our studies with the objective of creating a safe and open space for your employees while still getting directly to the core of what you need to know – no matter what that is.
We work with both. A 25-person company facing a leadership change has as much at stake as a 2,500-person one, and there is often less margin for error. Of course, the method changes with size, since interviews and small group sessions work better than surveys for small teams, but the objectives at their core stay the same: where do you stand as a culture, what matters most to your team and what should you do next to improve.
Two things: senior involvement and speed. At larger firms, senior consultants sell the project and then hand it off. At Bondar Group, our experienced researchers handle every phase personally. That means faster turnarounds, sharper insights, and better value for your investment.
No. We are based in Vancouver, British Columbia, and a lot of our employee research work is with companies across BC, but we run studies for clients across Canada and the United States, and internationally where the project calls for it.
Most projects are managed remotely and fieldwork is designed around where your employees are, not where we are.
If you are local, we are also happy to meet in person.
Talk to us! Even if you want to do the employee research all on your own, we will happily get on a call with you to answer any questions and set you in the right direction – free of charge! We exist solely to help companies get more from their research, not to fill our pockets.
We exist solely to provide companies better value from employee research initiatives. Part of this is by simply offering services at lower costs than our competitors, but also by always proposing the research plan that will meet your objectives at the lowest cost possible. We are fully transparent, have no hidden fees or trickery and will never suggest anything above or beyond what you need.
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