WorkBuzz acquires Hive to expand employee listening capabilities

The acquisition brings together two UK employee listening businesses, combining their expertise, technology and customer relationships.

YFM portfolio company WorkBuzz has acquired Hive, bringing together two UK employee listening businesses with a shared focus on helping organisations turn employee feedback into better decisions and improved performance.

Founded in 2018, WorkBuzz supports more than 350 clients across sectors including construction, retail, hospitality and healthcare, empowering close to one million employees to share their ideas, feedback and voice.

Hive was founded in 2016 and supports more than 160 commercial, public sector and not-for-profit organisations across the UK. Its team of 27 specialists provides survey design, data analytics and actionable insights to HR and people teams.

Hive customers will continue to receive uninterrupted support. Over time, they will also gain access to WorkBuzz’s wider employee-listening capabilities, including AI-powered analysis through Perspectives and People Science AI, alongside Dialogue, its conversational listening product.

The acquisition takes WorkBuzz another step closer to its ambition of empowering 10 million employees to share their voice by 2030.

Steven Frost, CEO of WorkBuzz, said: “Hive has built something we genuinely admire – strong customer relationships, deep employee listening expertise and a team that shares our belief that every employee deserves to be heard.”

John Ryder, CEO of Hive, added that joining WorkBuzz would allow Hive to build on what it has created and offer customers more ways to hear their people and respond to what matters.

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