It's extremely telling that I have had three different emails from higher ups asking me to let them know once I have completed the Allstate Asks survey, and now McKeown has sent an ANI-wide email.
Zulfi and Kunal are not interested in honest feedback so why waste our time pretending otherwise? What do they get by people being over-positive in a survey that makes zero difference?
I was honest on mine. Will see if I am in the next round of RIFs, layoffs, or termination because of my responses (I made the mistake of being truthful). Prior to this new management model, my team and the brother/sister teams would generally score well on these surveys and our direct managers/director would care if there was something in their control to improve the team. Direct managers and the team members where very close either because they worked in the same region/location or at least in a similar timezones. If we knew the surveys where not going to do anything to improve the team or hurt our GOOD managers, we would answer them in a way would not hurt them and address what was in our direct control. Now, the new management model has wrecked relationships with other teams/engineers, increased bureaucracy/silos, hurt morale, and replaced managers with good people skills with engineers that have decent tech skills but no people skills (and in some cases no tech or people skills). Ive been at this company for 20+ years, and this is the worst technical management Ive seen with the least amount of investment into development of current employees since 2008. Finally, I also noticed that the survey questions where more vague this year. If you don't answer, it will be reported, and you will get hounded for it.
Also, they always say the survey is totally anonymous. The disclaimer before you take it says "your responses will be linked to your identity for reporting and internal employee research purposes". What a joke.
Last time people hit the checkbox on "employee recognition" they formed a committee to host "fun events" and they had zero budget. So maybe a potluck, coffee meetup, and game quizzes.
Meanwhile news articles are showing Allstaters going to leauge sporting events.
Surveys are so exec’s can tout to board that they communicate with employees and measure to success. Bonuses are tied to results. They really do not mean anything when it comes to improvement. It is simply a necessity of doing business, check box item.
If you have a good direct manager & give them good scores but are negative (or neutral = negative) about the company, still counts AGAINST your manager. I’ve seen teams results clearly coached for all positive, no matter what the question is. It’s a joke
Was quite funny in our department in an FoC, to see the SVP (AG) and some of his goons he brought into company with him, getting people to fill in survey when he himself has never cared about culture . Opened my eyes to how d-mb the surveys are, nothing changes, all about the participation and please be positive
Because they don't care two sh--s what you have to say, it's a way for director level and above to di-k measure about the % of their departments who completed the survey. That's all it is.
@n6 No it won’t. It will just lead to you being put on a LIST and then they’ll start having someone watch you take the survey, much like a dr-g test in the military
Aka on the Ask comment section: “Can leadership name one thing they changed for the better in the last year from some random feedback put down on this survey?” Please answer this on the next town hall or leader led meeting with the grunts.
@n6, that option is increasingly becoming difficult. I think the leaders get the information on who has not completed their survey. They constantly barrage us on whether we completed their survey or not. And then ask individually as well if we submitted the responses. Feels very weird during “Allstate Asks” time.
Don't take the survey! It's the only thing we can control! Low participation will impact leadership performance!
As someone else mentioned, it doesn't matter what you say on the survey. Their only interest is in the participation numbers.
In an ANI town hall earlier this year it was made clear that we should only be positive on those surveys. So I'd be in agreement with the poster who made the point that managers should just fill them out themselves.
If you want to send a message don't participate. That will hurt our "leaders" much more than any negative responses. Low turnout means lower bonuses for them.
@g2 you realize you're posting this to a domain named "thelayoff.com"? And those who lie on the responses aren't muppets, more like parrots - and Polly wants a cr--ker.
If we were to guarantee anonymous responses, or at least responses that only correlate higher, those scores would tank. As is today, managers use these for less than "truth to power" reasons.
If you’re being anything other than honest in those surveys you are a fu--ing muppet. Pony up and speak truth to power.
How about the emails “reminding” us a neutral response is interprerted as negative.
For G sake the managers should just fill the damn thing out themselves.
Congratulations All$tate : you’ve succesfully fostered a workplace culture of cowed, fearful and browbeaten employees.
PLEASE quit asking for our “confidential” input.
Make sure you reply all is great. I think I saw it before here - managers will identify low scorers and they go to the top of the "list". There is nothing to be gained being honest...
They’ll have bonus/KPIs tied to participation numbers. Their concern is “engagement”. They don’t actually care what the survey says, just the number of completions.