No chance I'll fill this one out, after how the sampled pulse survey went.
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I hear ya about pulse, but honestly the best thing that could happen is for everyone to complete it and to be candid and fully transparent - the NPS will sink faster than a rock and they will NOT be able to spin it. Everyone is unhappy.
I was honest in the survey and I hope everyone takes it.
I was honest, and was very clear about not wanting a 5 day a week in office requirement, let alone the 3 day a week one which seems very skewed toward "experienced" employees. Someone on another thread talked about weight gain going back to the office. Yes! It totally correlates. My weight was lower when I was working at home full time.
What surprised me was how low my vitality actually is. I generally think of myself as a happy person, but most of my scores on the vitality questions were below the midpoint. It was an eye opener.
For the first time ever I was honest in the survey. I attempted to be brutally honest in a “professional” manner. I guess it’s up to leadership to decide how polite my constructive criticism was. Oh well.
I am actively seeking roles outside of the company and if they decide to retaliate and fire me for my honest feedback, so be it. Nothing will change going forward I’m sure, but I’m really over doing this fake corporate bullsh-t of “everything’s great!” in the face of leadership. I’m really not scared of these people and you shouldn’t be either. If all of our honest (aka negative) responses combined make even just ONE person in leadership feel guilty or anxious, I think those of us who didn’t fluff the survey did our job.
I was fairly honest, but tempered anything to lean a bit more positive for anything that may create more work or result in forcing my management to have even more meetings to explain more stuff that may or may never happen and rarely seem to actually relate in any meaningful way to the work my team is doing.
Medicare employee here. I don’t see the point for someone like me to even bother. :/
Maybe it is pointless, but I let them have it in the survey anyway.
Wow. I actually love my job at Cigna, my team is amazing, my manager is amazing. The direction of the company overall is scary for someone like me. I did do the survey and I was brutal about everything except my direct work/team/immediate leadership. Morale has been massacred this last year. It is a sad state of affairs.
I do not see the point of filing these out other than for them to pinpoint who is dissatisfied so they can retaliate against. Results from last survey were basically they gaslight us into thinking we are GREAT. He-l, take a quick look into IRIS… it’s literally the epitome of gaslighting and let’s not even talk about the townhalls!! I just do not see the benefits :(
I understand where you are coming from for sure. But I did that in the sampled survey earlier in the year. Nothing improved, and months later they released a 2-paragraph fluffery. This was the extent of the employee communication as far as I know.
Maybe I can give each item the lowest rating (not including direct leader and team stuff) and in all comments say "Refer to Sampled Pulse Survey".
I dunno, it seems so pointless
Tell them the truth. There's little left to lose frankly, given that the company is an incredibly toxic place to be working.
I'm definitely going to share the pointlessness of forcing SOME folks into an office where there is no one to collaborate with there, the wasted time and $ involved with commuting, and the unfair nature of making someone who never worked in person now be there 3 days when not one single other member of their team is in person. I'm forced to drive in to HQ where I then get on webex calls with my entire w@h team. Just stupid.
No one likes or trusts the ELT. If enough people tell them the truth, at least a small portion of the pervasive employee disdain will shine through.
Don't let them scare you into silence. THAT'S the sort of situation where they'll then spin it as, "See, everyone is happy! No room for improvement with all the glowing reviews we're getting."
Be honest. Professional, but truthful. Speak up!
We are not OK.
'We'll share enterprise results with employees, and leaders will have access to their team results - individual names will not be attributed to responses"
Is this one of it's confidential but not anonymous kind of surveys?
Yeah, I'm not so trusting of this one. Especially with Amazon starting the 5 day a week talk, I'm just concerned they will spin this that somehow "we" prefer a 5 day in office scenario. They did that last time when "they heard us" and claimed "we" wanted the anchor days.