Are the EES really anonymous? Anyone been retaliated against something they wrote in the survey before?
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I completed mine today and was brutally honest with my feedback around taking advantage of the pandemic and the looming layoffs. Culture of fear is real.
@2tle leadership is going to have fun with explaining these results. I didn’t hold back this year and I know other people felt the same way
So this survey is supposed to be voluntary. They encourage people to take it. I was just told by a friend at work that their team's manager is asking the employees to send a slack note letting the manager know survey has been filled out! Wow.....WTF kind of managers are these? How do they get away with this stuff?
What’s the point of an EES right now with covid, a never-ending restructure & a messy departure of a high-level fraud?
Whoever is pushing this internally has sh– for brains.
Did anyone have a reporter person contact them asking if you knew why the EES was now only for “selective” employees? I wonder if we will read another headline about Nike optics and lack of transparency.
I simply stopped wasting my time doing this survey because nothing, ever, comes of it other than yet additional meeting with Sr. Directors and Directors wanting to take actions on their teams' results. Thanks, but no thanks.
The survey is “sort of anonymous”.
I forget the exact details but if your supervisor manages something like 5 or fewer people they get the compiled results but not comments. If your manager has 10 or more reports they get the compiled results and anonymous comments.
Depending on how well a 10+ manager knows you or your gripes there’s at least some likelihood they can figure out who wrote what.
“Ask me how I know”.
Be honest and be professional. Say what’s on your mind. But don’t write anything that would be fairly easy to trace back to you based on circumstances that might have been unique to you. For example if you complained “I asked for 21 days off and had the PTO time but it wasn’t approved” there’s a good chance you will have just outed yourself to the manager reading your comment.
In other words keep any critical commentary sufficiently vague and don’t refer to incidents or situations that are gonna be pretty unique to you.
This is why I said the survey is “sort of anonymous”. It mostly is. But you can cause it to be otherwise by over-sharing certain details.
In my opinion this should be emphasized in the survey FAQ. Right now it isn’t.
@rwx you have hit the nail on the head.
Be honest in the surveys. I have seen too many times at Nike recently that people are afraid to speak up when something is wrong if it goes against the drumbeat of certain segments of management at Nike. I intentionally do not use the term leadership - leaders are becoming more and more scarce as the culture continues to shift away from the PHK ethos.
Why do you think the COO left? Hint, it wasn't to give opportunity to the next in line.
If by retaliated against, you mean "Will my supervisor make our team's life a living hell until he finds out who said what, including 1/1 with each teammate to ask pointed questions, act defensive and sulk like a spoiled child, then bring up the stupid survey results constantly for months afterwards as evidence of our team's lack of - what I don't exactly know... fealty? - until you wish you had never completed a single survey in your life?"
Yes. The answer is yes.
While I have never been derogatory or vulgar I have been very harsh and direct and have never received any indication of retaliation. If you can’t be honest then don’t fill it out. You also won’t get points for saying nice things. This year especially, I plan on being brutal and honest. The company’s behavior and treatment of employees this year was inexcusable and reprehensible and is continuing to be.
These aren't anonymous. I can't speak to Nike, but at other companies I've seen people identified and terminated for being derogatory or vulgar. What you write or say may not be attributed to you in any results, but the information will likely exist somewhere. You should give professional, constructive feedback. If you're unable to or fear that will bring retaliation then your problem won't be fixed by anything you say there.