They are only looking at participation. Your comments are superficial. Actions speak louder than words. If we don't participate they cannot claim employees are engaged. That's their end goal - claiming employee engagement. Unite in solidarity with no response.
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Take it from a former employee. Your comments on the survey are not anonymous and they will retaliate and gaslight you. They will scrub your file of complaints you have filed in the past to say they never knew of such issue. They will violate federal laws and will find a way to retaliate. You may not get fired, but you won’t ever be promoted or get a raise ever again.
It is absolutely true that the responses are not anonymous.
The survey is completely anonymous until you start reading the disclosures. Then, you see that your info would be shared with the 3rd party service provider only for this or that purpose. Nothing to worry about. Right?
I am already very vocal to my manager, so anything I write he will know. I don’t care, we are adults.
I planned on making bad marks about upper leadership and the company, but after seeing these posts I’ll not take it for the first time in the 8 years I’ve been here. It will be funny to see the emails begging us to complete it.
I worked with the HR L&D team at one point on some training and surveys that involved collecting comments, which the end users believes are confidential. I can tell you they most certainly aren't. They know exactly who the user is, which group, who they report to, etc. The only thing confidential is that your boss likely won't tell you they know what you said when they are busy retaliating against you for calling them out.
@bap Well my direct manager doesn’t talk to me, didn’t write up any comments for my review, and doesn’t care about my wellbeing. If the only thing I can do is affect his participation rate, that’s what I will do.
Never
I think it only gets media traction after the response rate goes in the shi++er. Unless there is some kind of grassroots palace revolt with a website and something showing obvious traction. Takes too long for that.
RIGHT NOW THE ONLY THING THAT CAN HAPPEN IS CONVINCE PEERS NOT TO TAKE. IF YOU'RE A MANAGER AND EMPATHIZE YOU CAN UNDERSCORE MORE THAN USUAL HOW THE SURVEY IS OPTIONAL.
Definitely agree! Every year, we do this. Nothing changes, gets worse. Let’s tank their participation metrics and send the message!
THIS IS NOT A SAFE SPACE. Confidential only means that your boss and their leadership won't publish how you scored or what you said. Since it's not anonymous they WILL know that you documented how much they s#ck as leaders and how disengaged you are. Nothing good will come from your participation.
DO NOT TAKE THE SURVEY AND IN SO DOING YOU ARE TAKING IT LOUD AND CLEAR. Tell your friends and neighbors.
Better yet, go and post about it on social media. Go and alert your local news.
Make it the headline of the week.
Maybe Warren will pick it up.
I'm a mgr and haven't experienced that. My participation rates are low and I don't even tell my people to take it. I might mention that it's available, but that's it. No issues, but then again maybe it's just because my boss doesn't su-k.
Low scores will only serve to foster apologism and explaining. Nothing will come of the scores.
The only thing that will get noticed is the sound of silence.
DO NOT TAKE THE SURVEY AND IN SO DOING YOU ARE TAKING IT LOUD AND CLEAR. Tell your friends and neighbors.
As a manager, I can say the participation counts more. We do get chewed if it’s it’s low, but hey, not demanding my team complete a survey when it’s down to 4 people, salaried, and oncall 2 weeks per month. If completing that survey gets them flextime or half day off or something, would consider.
@cvq+1umPLSCE your comments will come back to bite you. I personally know someone who was canned for the comments she made about her boss.
Your comments are NOT anonymous. Nor are they confidential. The ONLY way to make any kind of point at all is to ignore entirely.
I remember the previous CMO, Moldofsky, throwing a major hissy fit in an all team call because participation was so low. THAT is the one and ONLY way to make a point without blowback.
Haven't completed a survey in 3 years. Boss never got sc--wed over. I just kept deleting reminders. Never confronted, no issues here.
They don't care if your happy. They just need to report participation rates.
I filled out mine. They need to know we are not happy.
You know who they blame when people don’t participate? Their direct managers. Thats how they get people to participate because most people don’t want to sc--w over their boss, or at least they don’t want to end up on their sh*t list.
Your message is really gonna spread far and wide here. Up to 72 views already!