Thread regarding U.S. Bank layoffs

The survey link they send you can only be filled out once, which means that the link is individualized based on your email address. Since they can connect your responses to your email address, they can connect your responses to you. As others have mentioned, they only ever claim that it is confidential, which is very different from anonymous when it comes to surveys like this.

Your names not attached to the answers in the results complied at the end, but your information and footprint are in the original survey you took and EASILY identified should they need to be for HR reasons. Confidential and Anonymous are totally different.

it's anonymous to the extent that your direct manager, or his boss, will get a summary of responses by question, as well as all of the group's comments. The number of each multiple response answer will be given. There will be no names. Your manager, being human, will make certain assumptions throughout this process. The sinister part of this is - if there is something that you may have been vocal about in the past, then you are the most likely source of comments about that topic. You don't even have to be the person that wrote it.

You writing style may very well be given away by the natural patterns of your communications. Words that you use that are uncommon. Turns of a phrase, or analogies that you may have employed in the past. Regional dialects. This can also be a way that the results can be manipulated to point towards a coworker. if you wanted to make life difficult for your coworker MAGA Marge,you could make awful comments and sprinkle them with "you betcha's", and "dontcha know's"".

It's an insidious tool, but once you understand how it works, anyone can use it for any number of purposes.

two unread emails:

• from HR: please fill out our anonymous survey
• from Boss: don't forget about the survey, HR said you are the last one from our team

I have never completed a TTUS survey the entire time I have been a USB employee and never will - it's not anonymous. Too many times, the survey has been used to retaliate against employees for giving their honest opinions about the work culture here. You should fear reprisal up to and including termination because the survey results are confidential but not anonymous. Let the lack of engagement prove that employees have low morale and will continue to as long as GK is CEO!

It says they are "confidential" which is not the same as anonymous. It just means they'll mask your personal info before sharing any responses, but they do know who sent them. I collected confidential employee feedback surveys at a different company and I can assure you there is enough information on any "anonymous" or "confidential" survey to identify who submits them and I doubt we even collected half as much data as USB does on users.

I can verify that it is NOT anonymous. Even though they do not log your name or email they do track your individual IP address. This is something that has been used in the past to identify people who have made serious claims against their leaders and I personally have witnessed it result in the termination of a few.

It's anonymous. They disclose in the survey not to include any identifying information, and that's because your responses will (of course) be read/reviewed and because free-form responses will be rolled up under the various leaders. So leaders (and those of us in the TTUS survey focus groups) will see responses from other members of our teams, but we don't see who left the comments.

One thing that Gunjan said was that she believes morale is high because of "engagement". I took that as her thinking that because we fill out these surveys that all content is ignored, and as long as they get filled out, that she believes it means employees are happy. I hate that I had already done my survey (I did go back and click the link to my survey this morning, and I can't edit my responses - which were all negative already).

I think the best thing any of us can do is to refuse to fill these out any longer. No matter what we put in them, it'll continue to be ignored. Refusing to fill them out is better than wasting time on them, IMO.

Definitely not fully anonymous, last year my direct manager called a meeting after TTUS results with our team of 12 and read comments directly from our team in attempt to help low morale since majority of comments had a similar negative sentiment. So if comments can be filtered by larger department down to individually teams, then no not anonymous.

I am glad that I hadn’t filled out my survey yet because I basically pulled quotes directly from the call and sent it in shortly after it ended.

Nope

Think about it for a moment. If you made a threat on an “anonymous” survey, wouldn’t you think law enforcement figure out who filled out the survey? Nothing is online anonymous, there are fingerprints left behind.

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