Fu-k 'em.
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If you do fill out the survey, be sure to track your time as OpEx so that their numbers continue to show how fu--ing bloated and useless all the internal communication and meetings are.
Confession is "confidential" yet the priest knows who I am because my voice is recognizable. Coincidence it's called the Our Voice Survey? Anonymous is something different. The C-Level should be ashamed of themselves.
HR alert. Wrote 5 paragraphs and said nothing.
Do not take the Survey, it is not confidential! They read all commentary and make it into a joke , guessing who it could be. Complete waste of time!
I think some people are misinterpreting or misrepresenting the survey. The survey is "confidential", and states exactly that. Nowhere on the survey does it convey that it is "anonymous". There is a huge difference between the two, but feel free to do your own research to better your understanding.
Since it is "confidential", the entity administering the survey knows your identity. It must know your identity so it can allow you to evaluate your specific channels of leadership. It is not supposed to share your identity information with anyone, but since it knows who you are, and who your leaders are, it can share your feedback with your leadership. The smaller the team, the easier it is to recognize one's speaking and/or writing style, so it might be wise to keep your written feedback professional, respectful, objective, and honest (if you choose to participate). However, I subscribe to the belief that written feedback should always be professional, respectful, objective, and honest, whether anonymous or not, because, take note: integrity.
The ultimate goal is always for the company to get some insight into the various teams and functions, then be able to provide feedback to downstream leaders, so those leaders can shift if needed, or continue doing what they are doing, to get all the teams aligned with the company's goals.
Unfortunately, humans are fallible, and if you do choose to participate, and if you do provide critical (yet professional) feedback, there is always a risk with "confidential" surveys that the target of critical feedback may develop (or continue to maintain) a bias (conscious or unconscious) against an individual or small team. This could be true even if they aren't "allowed" to retaliate or make decisions adverse to the individual or team.
There must be trust and credibility. If there is trust and credibility, perhaps the respondent to a survey is comfortable answering the questions candidly, with the understanding that their answers may influence positive change within their team, and ultimately the company. However, if there is no trust and credibility, the respondent may fear harm or retaliation if they answer candidly, so they make a choice: a) don't take the survey; or b) take the survey, but omit the truthful, constructive criticism. Neither of those two options benefits a potentially dysfunctional team/company move forward, or get out of a rut, or expand their goals.
Either way, I'm sure all companies who request their employees to answer "confidential" surveys have good intentions, and hope to gain insight which may help the leaders to make improvements. They aren't, or shouldn't be, on a quest to seek out and punish those who have different opinions than theirs, on what is going good, and what is going bad.
Strategically, perhaps a company would see more of the truth if they first launched a truly "anonymous" survey, then follow it up with a "confidential" survey. Any remarkable disparity in participation rates (if any) would speak for itself; whereas, lack of participation in only a "confidential" survey (where no "anonymous" survey preceded it) could be attributed, in part, to lack of knowledge of the survey's existence, which might have the effect of incorrectly increasing the weight of praise, when probably, it should increase the weight of discontent or distrust.
Finally, I have always held the belief that, on a 0-10 survey, all 0's and all 10's are removed from the results (or given little weight and effect), and only 1's through 9's are tallied. As such, I typically input a 1 or a 9 for worst/best, then use 4-6 for mid-range, to distinguish my answers. Oops, did I just give myself away? 😵
How can it be anonymous, they know your computer name.
I can say 1000% they know who is saying what. I have seen the survey go UGLY...led to a term ultimately... is it even legal to tell your workforce the survey is anonymous?
‘… They want participation in an "anonymous" survey’
If you believe this survey is ‘anonymous,’ I have a bridge to sell you for $1 MegantaBuck. If the supposed anonymous survey truly were, why would the director or HR ping you to complete it?
They want to know what we are thinking because they are clueless of their workforce. Managers are liars and say we are extremely busy when reality theres nothing going on.
They completely ignored the factual info regarding the vax ineffictivenrss in prior surveys, because they had already decided to use the pandemic as a way to get rid of people.
Why bother with surveys? Tell your gutless manager / director you aren't going to waste your time since they have proven repeatedly that it is all for show and utterly pointless.
Horrid people comprise the SLT.
It's completely anonymous (but don't forward it)!
They want participation in an "anonymous" survey because Directors are evaluated, first, on the participation rates of their teams, then secondarily, on the scores. Once the scores come in, the directors then browbeat the managers to try and find out which person(s) on the teams made which comments.
The drive for participation is to get as many people who don’t care to pencil whip some decent scores to offset the all-zeros they know they’re gonna get.
Wahhhhh. That’s all I hear. If you don’t like it, leave. Nobody is forcing you to stay you entitled beotches!
"Strongly Disagree" Zero faith in front line managers, market supervision, region, and SLT. Fu-k them all.
Don’t answer the survey at all! They are looking for participation… If you answer good or bad, you still participated in the survey. That is more important to them than the answers.
Give them all zeroes. They are frauds.
Nah, be brutally honest.
I was under the impression these used to go out quarterly, now it seems like they only send the surveys out just before layoff announcements.
I say let them have it.