# How to measure alignment in your organisation

- **Episode:** [237](https://agents.truthliesandwork.com/episodes/237.md) (2025-10-02)
- **Type:** panel-interview
- **Tags:** measuring alignment, surveys, assessment
- **Time:** 34:09–36:58 (start 2049s)
- **Listen:** [https://truthliesandwork.com/237?t=2049](https://truthliesandwork.com/237?t=2049)

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[34:09] Al Elliott: You're saying they've got 65% alignment. How do you actually measure that? What are you doing to get to that number?
[34:14] Ina Purvanova: So, that's a great question. We actually have developed a scale, a survey that measures people's workplace preferences. And so, based on that survey, we know if your preference more leans towards a work-from-office or more hybrid kind of mix, or your preference is more towards remote work. And then it's simply a matter of matching. So if you know your work preference, well, what is the strategy of your company? So if, if your company wants you to be in the office and your personal workplace preference is to be in the office, then that's how you get to alignment. So those are the aligned people. Or conversely, if your company is a remote-first company and your preference is to work mostly remote, Well, that's also alignment, you know, on that other end of the spectrum. So basically alignment is like the two— to calculate it, it's a 2-step process. First, measure your employees so that you find out what their personal preference is, and then simply match that against the strategy of your company. And so when you do that, you would realize that regardless of what the strategy of your company is, whether it's office, whether it's hybrid, whether it's remote, In any one of those 3 situations, you are likely to have at least 3 buckets or 3 personas, as we call them, of employees. Some of them will be an aligned persona, some of them would be a half-aligned persona, and some of them would be a misaligned persona. And by the way, in the hybrid case, it gets really interesting because there's obviously aligned personas. So those are people who prefer to work hybrid and their company's hybrid. But in hybrid companies, there is 2 half-aligned personas and there is no misaligned persona, right? Because if you are a remote-prefering employee working for a hybrid company, well, you're kind of halfway there. And conversely, if you're an office-prefering employee working for a hybrid company, then you're also halfway there. So that's kind of that dilemma that we talked about earlier with hybrid is that Um, there is a core group of aligned people, and then there are 2 opposing group of groups of half-aligned people, which may seem like, oh, wonderful. In hybrid, I do not have anybody who is fully misaligned. But actually, the fact that you have 2 half-aligned buckets or personas makes things very interesting
[36:42] Alanah Mitchell: In the book, we have a matrix that kind of shows you and illustrates this, um, visually. So you could see, um, all of our HR audience members will love. It's a little 9-box, so you can see kind of where people are fitting in there. So, that's, that's a helpful tool that we have