Welcome to The State of Psychological Safety Survey 2025 – the largest global survey on psychological safety ever! Psychological safety is the core ingredient behind high-performing, innovative, and happy teams. It shapes whether we feel safe speaking up, sharing ideas,
Barriers to Psychological Safety Updated September 2026: we’ve clarified what the archetype percentages and overlap scores describe. Executive Summary This research explores the experiential barriers to speaking up at work: not just structural or cultural factors, but the lived fears
Executive Summary This study examined which practices most effectively foster psychological safety in teams and organisations. While behaviours such as listening and empathy underpin interpersonal safety, practices (structured, named activities like retrospectives or social contracts) create the scaffolds and shared
Updated September 2026: we’ve rechecked the figures against our raw survey data and brought the wording closer to the questions people answered. Executive Summary This study explored how feedback in the workplace affects both performance and psychological safety. While feedback
Updated September 2026: we’ve clarified how we describe the survey results. They measure how restructures and redundancies changed people’s sense of safety, rather than how safe people feel overall. Executive Summary This study examined the relationship between job security and
Executive Summary In this Research Pulse, 121 respondents were asked how familiar people in their workplace are with the concept of psychological safety. The results show a broadly “middle-ground” distribution: most people have heard of it, but few would call
Executive Summary This study explored why people foster psychological safety, examining whether motivations are primarily moral, relational, or performance-driven. While psychological safety is often discussed in terms of its organisational benefits: innovation, learning, quality, and performance, this research highlights the
Executive Summary This pilot study explored the relationship between employment protections—in law and organisational policy—and psychological safety at work. Drawing on 84 responses from participants across multiple countries, the research sought to understand whether stronger employment rights correlate with greater
Welcome to The State of Psychological Safety Survey 2023 – the annual survey of The Psychological Safety Newsletter. This is your chance to join thousands of voices, share your experiences, and inform the content of the next year of articles, resources,
