Did anyone take the survey to rate Allstate/managers ?
I was honest in writing that there is no work life balance here
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With hindsight you do the survey and then the next year see the same thing and nothing that was brought up in the previous survey has been addressed. So you quickly catch on that it's just a compliance requirement rather than an improvement vehicle. So as you're just being taken for a ride best thing to do is not do the survey at all. Think they just go 50% take up. Once they see staff have no faith in it maybe they'll wake up and smell the coffee....but doubt it.
It clearly seems in their actions that they don’t care about feedback. Most of the Allstate functions heavily with Top-down approach.
My manager’s team is small and they would know right away who wrote the feedback. So, no point in writing anything as the manager is not so receptive of the feedback. It’s all about how to keep the senior leadership happy and their lives cushy.
They’re anonymous but your manager will receive the comments. Just don’t be too specific. I work in a BI office on the east coast. I was sure to let them know about the workload issues and lack of leadership.
'Meh. Just answer the survey and be honest. But even being brutally honest will get you nothing. '
' This survey is just a formality. A gesture, to say, 'Yes, we did it.' '
'If you're too chicken to be honest because it might endanger your comfy womfy job... then you're as responsible for the dysfunction as our clueless management. '
Make your mind up.
Former employee- NOTE. Those surveys aren’t anonymous. Give my personal opinion; later rec’d a not so happy call from my manager. Suggest lying and move on.
My leader is a complete je----f that I'd like to throat punch. So he's getting the business on this survey.
They are anonymous, but we can see the comments. They don’t take it as something against AS, it only reflects on your direct manager. It doesn’t change anything at the company, only makes the manager have to make action plans and risk their job. If the leader su-ks then be honest, if they are good then give it all good scores. If you don’t take it we have to make action plans to get more people involved. It’s a farce.
Meh. Just answer the survey and be honest. But even being brutally honest will get you nothing.
If they genuinely cared about changing their company then they'd make an actual effort to understand the day to day reality of providing services and make adjustments. They'll never do that. They have a whole layer of middle management who sanitize results and lie to them. This survey is just a formality. A gesture, to say, 'Yes, we did it.'
At least get your opinion out there. If you don't you're just adding to the illusion they're already being handed. If you're too chicken to be honest because it might endanger your comfy womfy job, (because yeah, they've made it obvious they develop 'hitlists' for their random layoffs /sarc) then you're as responsible for the dysfunction as our clueless management.
They are technically anonymous, but the leaders get the comments. So it would be pretty easy to narrow down who said what.
These sl--eballs don't care about any of us. Just corporate mumbo jumbo to say they do. They probably sit around sipping martinis laughing as they read them.
I was brutally honest but professional. I know that these surveys are not at all anonymous so I am hoping I get put on the layoff list for 2025 and get a nice severance.
They transparently state that the surveys are NOT anonymous, but they are confidential. As a people leader, I do not have access to any respondents’ names, but they are captured in the raw data that HR has.
Responding honestly has benefits. No, the company doesn’t change. But at least it’s an opportunity for employees to share what makes them unhappy and how they really feel about the company. That’s much more effective that anything we say on this site. If more people rated the company poorly on the survey, maybe the leaders would see that there are fundamental issues that need to be addressed instead of thinking everything is rosy from an employee perspective.
Nothing changes after taking them
Don’t take surveys that aren’t required, and never believe that any of them are anonymous.
I wouldn't believe them when they say they are anonymous.
I've always given glowing reviews to my managers no matter how bad they are. Why would I potentially give someone who has a say in whether I get sacked or not a reason to hold a gurdge against me?
Great job, I am positive this survey will result in a transformation of the entire company culture.
You’re a new hire, aren’t you?
You just put a big fat target on your back, boyo. A team I worked on gave bad results in the survey, ended up with 6 months of weekly meeting and action plans to improve the results.
Don’t complain about what you choose to accept!