If internal Voice of Employee channels were used in the manner intended, and if legitimate employee concerns were met with full transparency, the anonymous forums wouldn't exist.
Yes, there are some nasty individuals spewing hateful sentiments here. However, there are also plenty of respectful comments that are supported by facts and sound research.
Close the feedback loop. You hear us, and you appreciate that changes are difficult - please prove it. Where are the executive-level responses to Pulse trends?
Meet us halfway here. Take care of our remote peers, they are talented, dedicated, and eager to grow. RTO has been hugely damaging to morale, listen to your people begging for more flexibility - 4 days is a rigid requirement and does not demonstrate a concern for employee work/life balance.
Your people are telling you how to repair trust. If you can move past the hurt feelings of anonymous comments, you'll see these comments align with Pulse, The Post, and sentiments filtered up through our leaders. This is nothing new. This is nothing surprising. This is a direct reflection of an environment that fails to make employees feel heard, understood, and valued.
You mentioned that people don't care about any leaders except for their own - this is false. A vast majority of us adore our leaders, but we CARE quite a bit about the leadership at the top. Glassdoor, I think, proves this point. We have such talent and passion in our ranks. We genuinely feel terrible for our direct leaders because we DO approach them with our concerns, and their hands are tied. Either they have passed along our feedback and it's fallen on deaf ears, or they're too fearful of retaliation to speak up, and so they absorb our concerns and do their best to manage an unmanageable morale crisis.
Please don't discount these comments as irrelevant because they're anonymous. We've said the same thing in company channels, I promise.