Stop letting the supervisors and managers in here fear you into not doing the survey, or giving false good scores. The systems registers if you took it but the answers are anonymous. Unless you wrote out very specific details or a situation and drop names they will not know it’s you. They won’t give you a bigger bonus, they won’t give you a better yearly review. Be honest and if you fear retaliation reach out to HR and document, document, document. If you want a better work place SPEAK UP! You can’t cry and moan the environment is cr-ppy if you’re going to willing lay in it.
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@OP they absolutely do know everyone that takes it. The survey is linked by your email or else your can't get to the survey. If they can track everything you do while at work they certainly know what you're saying in the survey. Don't let them tell you they can’t see it. But who cares I’ve said some pretty nasty things about specific CEOs and the company in general and I’m still here.
HR is not your friend
No but they are not managements friend either. They’re entire purpose is to prevent the company from
Lawsuits. So if you have a case that a labor attorney would take up they will fight tooth and nail to make sure you don’t sue them. Getting fired is a big no no when you report to HR in good faith. Which is a bigger lawsuit.
"Be honest and if you fear retaliation reach out to HR and document, document, document."
What are your expectations from engaging HR? HR is not your friend. They will occasionally take 'your side' when it aligns in their power struggle with management.
Skipping the survey impacts the engagement score, which was something senior leaders were touting after the last survey. The actual survey results were awful, but engagement was still high.
I agree. Don't let them scare you out of writing an honest review. These ding dongs in management and upper management need to be held accountable.
@an+1k6zthy8 theres literally thousands of employers on this site. Your paranoia is hard.
I answered everything straight down the middle to remain vague and unhelpful since the surveys are pointless. Being honest does nothing but get you put on a list as not being a "Yes Man". My team is small so if I were to answer honestly, my Manager would immediately know it was me. I stay vague and unhelpful because nothing will ever change with this company.
As a director I can confirm that at least to the VP level they are anonymous. I know this first hand. I do believe they are anonymous because if they weren’t I’d probably be fired by now. They do have an ID attached that says whether you took the survey or not but the actual results are only attached to your manager and not an individual under the team.
I always encourage my teams to be open and honest. At the end of the day it’s your manager that gets in trouble because our leaders think that poor pay and benefits can somehow be remediated by the front line managers to improve scores.
HR users the data in more ways than you think. The aggregate responses by leaser are used for business decisions such as reorgs and where work is moved to and from.
@a1 there’s no way this is true… if this were the case my bonus would be astronomical - I’m calling bullsh-t on this.
Think of it like voting? You have to show your ID and it’ll be known you took it but the system blocks out personal ID information and just complies them all for every supervisor. Then all the supervisors and their employees get sent to their manager, then the managers get sent to the director and so on. It is anonymous, it’ll tag your supervisor and who is directly above you but it won’t have your personal info.
Think of it like a suggestion box all the papers are in there but unless there is specific details they won’t know it’s you
How are the answers anonymous when you log into the system with your ID. Also HR is not your friend or on your side
An old man once told me, "Surveys are for those whose heads are stuck in the suds and can't taste the brew."
This post is a lie by HR on what I suspect is an Optum owned website, they know who answers what on the surveys! I have had many of my posts like this one removed, maybe this will quickly disappear. I’m back just to make that known and to encourage people to post on Glassdoor, let’s get out the truth about this place!
@a1 that’s a scapegoat, they’ll find a way to give you a sh-t bonus either why so why give false praise when they didn’t earn it? Stop letting them walk all over you.
The survey results are directly tied to our bonuses, since the managers with the highest scores get the highest allocations. Why should we be honest if it could cost us money in the end?