How many are actually giving the bad feedback in your pulse surveys? Are you giving the real, or just leaving the boxes open?
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I told Dan to go have relations with his mother in mine
I was honest. And harsh.
But as is the case with Pulse surveys all negative feedback will be attributed to a “disgruntled employee”’or “someone who was having a bad day.”
It is not at all anonymous. It is directly linked to your account. HR, Ethics, a bunch of others have direct access to each response. It also gets broken down to teams as small as 5 which makes anything with a verbatim comment trivial to associate with an individual.
I suggest not filling it out. I sure won't
@c8 anonymous is when everyone gets the same link and you could use it from even outside enviroment....confidential is when each individual gets a personalized link....confidential does not mean untraceable.......now think twice what you got....you are not anonymous.
It is not 100% anonymous while they may not identify you as an individual they can and do break it down to group, manager and supervisor. This is fact as my manager (good quy as well aqualified and liked by direct reports) who I have known for 20 plus years advised me how it was mentioned to him his low scores were compared to others. He is aware of how sc--wed up above management and VZ is.
The survey only exists so Vaz can say they had x% completion rate, so they can claim to be aligned. As far as things change, they do….they make up things such as Sam saying we said we want to RTO.
@c8 it most certainly isn’t. This years language said “individual results are avail to select hr reps for ‘research’”.
God knows you can’t trust hr.
I 100% was honest. I said the CEO is trash and wants to replace us with AI. They don't care about us.
I've skipped this and the last 2 surveys. My manager was moaning about the results when he had a 100% turnout and still moans with the results. I've told him that I've skipped them, especially as his results are pretty consistant (bad).
In all the years I did do it, nothing ever changed, so its a pointless exercise imo.
@bz Targeted? How so? It’s anonymous.
Claude wrote my feedback. They rather have us use AI instead of our own brain so the feedback will be as such…GARBAGE!
Your best bet is don’t do the pulse survey. They don’t care what you write, they only care about the percentage that did it.
They get more angry when you don’t do it. The first level bosses will be begging you to do it.SAY NO TO THE PULSE SURVEY!
I started the survey then chickened out. I have to be honest but I don’t want to be targeted.
Yes. Honest. Or else why bother?
Let’s be honest pulse is just a way to make Verizon compliant by giving their employees a platform to say sh-t but nothing ever changes
I thought about posting honest feedback. Then I asked AI and it said don’t fall for the trap because it may be a way their analytics software weeds out disgruntled employees.
@OP Your boss and your boss’s boss don’t give a flying F about whether you have a satisfactory work environment! If their pulse results are below their peers they’ll have to pretend to implement an action plan. It’s just a minor annoyance but they’ve done it before so no biggie.
On the other hand they know which of their reports are dissatisfied and can guess who is tanking their ratings and those people will probably be laid off in the next round. If you only keep the brown nosers who say you’re a great boss, your pulse ratings will be stellar! Problem solved!
Pulse surveys are meaningless, if anything they only add work. If the score is low then actions plans have to be put in place and actioned by the team.
My strategy with these stupid surveys, tell them what they want to hear and go back to what I was doing.
We’ve tried it all, score high, score low, not respond at all and it made zero difference. The survey results only bring change if they align and support something leadership wanted to do anyway