It sounds like a way for leadership or HR to gauge morale, engagement, and the likelihood of voluntary attrition.
They want to avoid the optics or costs of large-scale layoffs by encouraging people to leave on their own through burnout, uncertainty, and instability.
The inclusion of that survey question seems like an indication of a broader strategy to identify how successful they’ve been in nudging people toward the door, or to assess whether more pressure is needed to meet workforce reduction targets without formal layoffs.