Anyone else notice on the latest pulse survey email that you are directed to NOT forward the link to the survey to anyone else? So much for anonymity and honesty in what employees really feel!!!
It would be funny if it weren't so sad.
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"while they may not link your name to the survey..." - @9ukm
bwahahahahahahahahaha
This just in, the sun will rise tomorrow.
Been that way for years.
Take it from someone who suffered from "anonymous" surveys years ago...they are NOT anonymous.
While they may not link your name to the survey (and therefore the company can claim anonymity), your manager will have every demographic piece of info available about each respondee (such as etchnicity, years with the company, job title, etc.) so that it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how each person responded to each question - especially if you are on a relatively small team
Execs sure to send email around to get full participation. They know who does and doesn't. Time to conform or be cast away.
What they don't disclosed: the image used in their email contains a unique URL which makes it perfect for tracking. Even if you don't sign up to take the Pulse Survey, they know that you've seen the email, at what time, from what IP address, and how many times you viewed it. Same thing for the emails reminding you that you have yet to take the confidential survey.
Sure, they might have some mild interest in Making Verizon a Better Place, but that's not what the survey is for. The Employee Communications department is just trying to measure the effectiveness of their internal PR efforts and to figure out what commonly held employee understanding they'd like to adjust. Of course, that doesn't prevent this "confidential" data from being used for other means, such as targeting those who exhibit Wrong Think.
Mr. Burns, your campaign seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?
Ooh, a tough question, but a fair one.
I am always honest on my replies. I stand on and can explain any feedback i provide. If that is a reason to be 'fired' then so be it. I have no intention of ever living in fear for being truthful when asked for feedback.
If this is cause for reprisal, then youve confirmed my sentiments and thats where you hold that joke of an HR dept to the wall and get the ethics line on the horn as well.
I worked at Verizon (aka Cellular One, aka Airtouch Cellular) for 25 years. The surveys are a joke and that is why they don't get honest answers so nothing ever got fixed.
I couldn't have said it worse.
This is the guy that started Q&Rand also wanted every manager to suspened better yet fire an employee,every werk ,really ..he is like an assasin,watch yoursevles,that god i left this place.
OP, what are you afraid of? Be honest and open. I don’t spend my day worried and paranoid about my job. If you’re nervous then start looking for something else while you’re still employed.
Connect has an additional survey, at the end it stated a concern that "You do not understand our strategy" :-) Yes I do, I just don't agree with it
The survey doesn’t matter one iota. You’ll notice the questions are usually loaded and the results always tweaked in a way that would make Baghdad Bob proud.
Agree with a previous comment within this thread- brutally honest! Don't like it, then leaders be very careful of suddenly trying to find faults to ding your team members now so close to mid-years...be very, very careful...all eyes are open and observant this time around. We may have all supplied fluffy answers in the past, but this is no longer that time. And, who wants to work for someone preaching about transparency when they treat their people poorly for speaking the truth.
Duh. Of course it's tracked...more of an incentive to be honest about what is really going on. No more hiding behind the fear of being called out. If you wany my honest input yhen you'll get it and rest assured, I and others who are in the same frame of mind will be watching closely for ANY retaliation due to honest feedback. Get really leaders, you're about to get your worlds shaken up. No more fluff no more politics. You want 2.0? You're going to get 2.0.
@ZfTeoA8-1rfz ... Exactly! This is social engineering and manipulation at its best. They want to know if all the schemes and propaganda are working on the employee; what is working and what is not working. Have sentiments been changed even though in the company nothing else has change.
Can the company change the employees perception and still not fundamentally change the inner workings or the direction or real intent of the company? The company owns the narrative and if they can make the employee believe something is better, change is good, 2.0 is golden and yet at the same time outsource as much of the company as possible then they have won.
Pulse is not designed to track the company over time as much as it is to track each and every employee, and each employee's sentiment over time.
one paranoid fellow thought that, even back in the 90's, the bar code on the paper survey's return envelope was an identifier, as he was personally called out for not returning his filled out form
Captain Obvious, your service will not be forgotten here OP.
I have always believed that any computer based survey is not anonymous, but I don’t really care. I don’t see why any union member wouldn’t feel the same way. I have no concern that I would be retaliated against and I never have been in all these years.
Yep; every survey is tied to an ID, why else is there then do not forward to another employee. This last survey I did not bother with and deleted. The next one I will delete as well.
I told them how it is! If they don’t want an honest opinion, they shouldn’t ask for one. I strongly disagreed with just about every question and wrote a brutally honest opinion at the end. If they want to question me face to face, I’ll stand by what I wrote.
I thought it was common knowledge every survey link is tied to an employee id
How how do you think they have all that data based on director level? What you think they have director information but they don't break it down further?
There is a reason these polls show such high numbers. Cut any number you get in half for a true number, people are afraid of reprisal with this company