We can infer who you are very easily and we factor that into future decisions.
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My entire team was wholly honest for two years. I have no regrets and am told by my co-workers/friends; they feel the same. Of course I am the only one who up and left six months ago. So there is that. But I received satisfaction hearing my immature inept leaders have to read those results and listen to the complete silence that was our feedback. What a mismanaged he-l-hole Navihealth became.
No one reads the survey. I tested it by putting in a bunch of trigger words and phrases last quarter that should have set off alarm bells. You could tell HR that you're going to jump off a cliff because things are so bad and nothing would happen.
Surveys are not anonymous. The company owns these surveys. They pay for them. They can request what they want but not sure why anyone would think they mean anything. They are for regulatory requirements so they can pass some NCQA certification, meet some other requirement. Once they get everyone to give them a score that they can than manipulation well you just help them continue with their toxic environment. So they all sit in a meeting probably rolling around and high fiving each other.
Absolutely, if you gave a negative survey they retaliate against you. If you want to get let go give a negative survey. As a manager and director they can tell who made what comments and even scores. Their friends vs not. Think of it that way.
Factoring someones feedback into future decisions sounds like retaliation. I thought to be a leader you had to embody all corporate values and core principles— unless youre ine of those that goes around saying, "wE dOnT wORk fOr UHG!"
Lol.
Surveys are completely anonymous to management and leadership.That is unless your comments are calling out specifically identifiable pieces of information/situations and your leader has enough directs to view full comments. Managers can see either no comments, key words only or full comments. It all depends on the number of directs. There is also no way for managers to tie individual responses (1-5) to individual people.
OP, news flash, we don’t give a flying fu-k. We don’t bow to you and we don’t care. If you don’t like us that’s your problem. We will continue to be honest. Boot li---r
I wonder if some of these “don’t take the surveyt” are leaders who are worried about their scores? Haha
Take the survey guys! Especially if you have terrible leadership. I promise that leaders with low scores are looked at - especially if other managers in the same department score well compared to yours.
If all managers score low it doesn’t mean as much for any one leader but the senior leaders over the group see it as negative when a whole department scores low. I’ve been in departments with horrible scores and it definitely had an impact! In fact, we had another, off cycle, survey sent out a couple of months later and people team attendance at every department wide meeting. This was recent.
So please take the survey - be honest, be fair where you can. Don’t free type anything at all that could identify you.
If you do free type a response, be professional. You are not going to get singled out for it. If you feel that is the case, and they cannot provide any documentation of where or how you are under performing that is causing the negative treatment, then you can pull up screenshots of your survey responses (take them!) for records for unlawful firing if needed.
But, by and far, that isn’t going to be the case. If you work under someone that would do that, they’re going to find any other reason to get rid of you, too.
Also it is anonymous - sr leaders (SVP) maybe could get the info if really wanted (?) but your direct leader isn’t going to- they can try to guess based on free text response but it’s anonymous otherwise.
Just play the game and stop whining. Take it and give the highest grade for every question and say you're not burnt out. If you give low scores, you spend the next 6 months sitting in meeting discussion how to improve the culture and improve the scores. Just fill it out but don't leave comments because that's what singles a person out. Think about those that make the decision to reduce the workforce. Do they hesitate if they have great scores or do they feel justified (they deserve it) when they have low scores?
Just do not fill them out at all. The only thing they actually care about is engagement. When that is low then they look bad.
Those surveys are double edged swords. If you give negative feedback you get laid off. If you give the honest feedback gets laid off. If you give glowing feedback company will assume you are a liar and layoff.
Avoid participating any employee surveys. If they push you to complete delay it until the last day then apply for PTO or Sick day and avoid ever engaging or participating the survey.
Yes, this happened to me. I was honest and brought realistic solutions to the table to help with the team's engagement. I was forced to write my own CAP shortly after. I guess it's easier to push people out instead of actually fixing the issues causing the low engagement. Optum Leadership 101.
Of course they know who you are in these surveys, and yes they will blacklist you as unhappy! The reason the stock price is down 30% is the cronyism in leadership means yes people are promoted, a sort of DEI policy of advancement instead of meritocracy. You can only lower labor costs by offshoring for so long, eventually the hidden costs of offshoring show up in lowered service levels and some staff burnout. Weak unskilled management cannot project plan or deliver cost effective timely solutions because they don’t have the capacity to do so. Time to clean house on the woke weak minded leaders starting at the very top and MUGA! Make UHG a great AMERICAN company again!
Insider here... A Vice President knows and that person could tell the director which would tell your manager. So no. Surveys are not confidential. You are welcome to believe what your heart desires.
I told you I’m not taking it. Also I made you aware it’s not confidential or anonymous. No need to be a little toddler and call me a c*nt. Your anger is misguided. You know the company you work for. Do be honest. That will show them.
Be honest I plan to be
Just from doing research and conducting surveys for my masters program—nothing is anonymous/confidential in these work surveys. They (upper management) know exactly who has/hasn’t taken the survey. They know who says what. Now the results may go to you supervisor may be codified, but they can figure out who is who based on past conversations, interactions, length with company, etc….personally I don’t want to take it. I don’t think they want my feedback. Also, I got moved to another department, so it would be pointless. Use caution being honest. Any time I have done so, (in past jobs) I found myself being retaliated for my responses. Or being asked in coaching, “is everything okay?” “Is there anything else I can do to support you?” Next thing you know you are on a PIP/CAP. Do whatever you see fit, but just be aware—they will know exactly who you are.
And that’s exactly why people should be honest. You’re basically claiming retaliation. Cu-t.
Be honest.. I will be. Nothing will change otherwise, and I realize nothing probably will anyway, but.. I do believe that there are things going on in areas that Optum has no clue about. Particularly things in leadership. Just my 2 cents.