UKG Employee Voice - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

Perception by Ultimate Software is an employee feedback and engagement analysis tool which uses custom surveys to collect feedback from team members and gain real-time insight. Perception is powered by Xander, an advanced portfolio of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, to give insights. Perception offers features such as machine learning and natural language processing in order to analyze employee feedback and generate visual analytics on employee sentiment and engagement.

With Perception, businesses can create custom surveys with a variety of question types including multiple choice and open-ended text input, depending on the type of data needed for analysis. Questions can be responded to by employees using a drag and drop interface to select the relevant answers. Surveys can be sent to employees in order to gain a better understanding of what each individual or team cares about and how the company culture could be adapted to better engage, motivate, and retain employees. Survey results can be analyzed and benchmarked to understand the effectiveness of teams, management, or the business as a whole.

Information gathered from employee surveys within Perception can be analyzed with natural language processing, machine-learning technology, and industrial-organizational psychology. Both structured and unstructured data can be analyzed in real time in order to better understand employee sentiment, emotions and values, as well as overall opinions on culture, performance, retention, and more within the company.