There will clearly be a link back as they monitor activity, but does anyone at Dell see who said what or does this sit with the 3rd party?
No one believes Tell Dell is anything more than a tick in a box.
Would the best Tell Dell feedback not be "no participation" ?
Apart from the ex HR confirmation, here below, I empirically would say "yes, they it's anonymous (at least to Dell)".
At every Tell Dell I hit hard, especially in the part related to the org management/strategy, and so far nobody has ever reached out to me to "kindly suggest" being more moderate.
If your manager has 5-6 reports ( and it is so at higher levels), he knows who is unhappy about what . In my case, he had TOLD us many times to only give him 10 and not miss any question. And if you have tried to give bad rating inspite of his threats you had he-l to pay ( it would be bonus gone or PIP . He is a Vet and he doesnt have any compassion . He thinks he is still in battlefield). He skewers us daily for not giving "thumbs up" on this text messages or if the greeting was not "enthusiastic enough" . So no one has the guts to give anything other than full score in TD.
Ex-Dell-HR here who worked with the team who ran TellDell. TD is confidential, not anonymous.
Anonymous = impossible to know the respondent.
Confidential = steps taken to protect respondents' identities.
TellDell is outsourced to Perceptyx. They administer the survey and handle all the reporting back to leaders. They have direct access to who responded, so it is therefore not anonymous. However, there is a hard wall between Perceptyx and Dell, making it confidential. They do not share any respondent information with the Dell HR team managing the relationship, there is no dashboard on the Dell side that provides respondent-level access, and the answer from Perceptyx would be a professional "go to he-l" even if Dell requested it.
At an individual level it's anonymous. However you do get to see your responses by geo. If you're manager of a team in the US and you have reports in EMEA or APAC then you'll see your Tell Dell results split by region. It's anonymous but you can get a sense of who has said what.
My team manger once told me that at an individual level, TD was in fact anonymous. However the TD submissions were associated with the team that the employee is in. So if you are in a small team, it is relatively easy to work out which person filled in each TD response (particularly if they were rather verbose with their answers).
It's a Service Dell pay a third party for. To mirror a lot of comments on this subject, it's all B.S. I put 10 for everything and in comments write things like "I don't know how you could do it any better" for every comment!
Waste of their time and money
Fu@k em
Go for it if you have time to waste
Write “BIG PENUS” as one of your responses in Tell Smell.
If you get fired it wasn’t anonymous.
Nope. They know what you say. I still told the truth anyways. And they still ignored the feedback. I won't do it if I'm still here next year... it's pointless.
@bkw+1vEIXvnG - it has nothing to do with "scnaning the PC"
The link sent for TD has a unique URL for every employee. You can take the survey on a non-corp PC and it'll still be tied back to you. As others have said, it's still "anonymous" outside of managers being able to figure out who you are based on your comments. AI plus being tactical in how you approach feedback is the way to go if you intend to be honest.
Think about it: If the survey results can be broken down to individual teams or users, then true anonymity is not possible.
Anonymous???? Hahahahahaha NO.
If you look in your workday profile, there is a page for Tell Dell feedback. It’s not populated in employee view. You’ll find it in same place as hybrid tracking. Anonymous? Not a chance
Yes it’s anonymous. Was a manager there for nearly 10 years. Never saw anything to suggest otherwise.
It’s all horseplops anyway.
what is the point of it...this year should have been proof of that.
They do things in just enough of a way to technically make it anonymous, but if you put any sort of truth or emotion into your answers it will be easy for your manager to know it was you.
So youre sc--wed no matter what IMO if you say anything critical
I guarantee you it is 100% anonymous, please be as honest as you can
Ask chat gpt to rewrite all my comments.
I'm done with with it going forward. If you notice, there have been absolutely no meetings to discuss the results like there was in the past. The results were bad this year and have since been swept under the rug. That should tell you right there what your opinion matters them. I think lack of participation would speak louder as those numbers would be harder to hide.
Do it. Be honest, thats that
Hello! Manager here. Can confirm at the management level we are unable to see names, but in all honesty it’s usually pretty easy to tell who negged you based on the way you write your comment. Leaving no comment doesn’t help either as it’ll get written off as someone unfairly gunning for you.
Tell Dell is administered by a 3rd Party. So while they can link answers and open text to an employee (and know who the manager is) none of this gets passed back to HR or Dell managers except at aggregates. That’s how anonymity is maintained.
The main metric for them is staff participation.
Me personally I see it as a waste of time based on feedback over the last number of years.
It’s clear that the system identifies users without explicitly asking for personal information such as name, role, or location. For instance, whenever I’ve completed the survey, it doesn’t prompt me for these details. However, when I reach the section about my direct manager, it pre-populates with "Your manager is Joe Brown." This indicates that the system identifies the logged-in user by scanning the PC. This approach seems to be used not only to attribute feedback to specific individuals but potentially to discourage criticism of management and create a skewed perception, as most responses are generally positive.