Sample Survey: Menopause Support for Employees

Learn what support your employees need when menopause symptoms make work difficult.

Nine in 10 women ages 35 and up experience menopause symptoms, such as insomnia, brain fog, fatigue, muscle or joint pain, hot flashes, and more. For one in three women, those symptoms are severe enough to cause 11 or more missed workdays, with some women even leaving the workforce altogether.

Employers can make a difference during this life stage by providing benefits and accommodations that help employees stay healthy, productive, and able to do their best work. But support isn't one-size-fits-all; the best way to know what will help is to ask employees themselves.

"Sample Survey: Menopause Support for Employees" is an anonymous poll to help you gather employee feedback on what support options would be most helpful, so you can design benefits and accommodations that truly meet their needs.

This survey is part of our Menopause at Work toolkit, a suite of practical resources designed to help companies create menopause-friendly workplaces. In addition to this guide, the free toolkit includes:

✅ Menopause PulseCheck: How Menopause-Friendly Is Your Workplace?
Assess how your company's menopause support stacks up across culture, policy, and benefits — and walk away with personalized recommendations for making your company more menopause-friendly.

📣 Empowering Conversations About Menopause
Learn how to break the silence and start informed, supportive conversations that make menopause visible at work.

🧩 Naming and Shaping Your Menopause Strategy
You may already have the building blocks for menopause support; learn how to recognize and adapt existing benefits.

🩺 Improving Health Care Benefits for Menopause
Key considerations and prompts to help you start a conversation with your provider and champion the right care for your team.

💬 Menopause Language Tips: Your Words Matter
Simple do's and don'ts to help you reduce stigma by using informed, inclusive language.

You can visit HAA's Women's Health at Work page to explore these tools and more resources and articles to help you better support employees through every stage of life, including menopause.

We’d love to hear how you're using these free tools! Drop us a line at hello@healthaction.org to let us know how they're working for you and your team.

The Health Action Alliance is the country’s largest employer network operating at the intersection of business and public health. With a network of more than 11,000 employers nationwide, we’re on a mission to make employees healthier and our communities stronger. We know good health is good business.