Why is so urgent that surveys be done? Are they used to target reductions?
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Yes the mgr will tell you, " learning new skills and taking on new responsibilities will make you more valuable to the company.
Except you will not get a nice raise or bigger bonus. You will just be doing the work of two people but still making the same salary.
Yep I heard and seen the cons they have pulled on workers.
My favorite was how this left wing company tried to force you to get the shot. Oh i got treated nasty and saved it all. Retaliation does not happen and the survey is confidential both lies.
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Exactly! For example stating either with comments or by rating certain things low like no career opportunities… little training or learning. The solution to improve these scores is to tack on required training or even providing useful training that you unfortunately have no time to take advantage of
For career opportunities they implement this skill thing requiring you and your manager to rate your skills and how you can improve. Telling you it is more important to increase your skills for your career … more important than promotions, actual job opportunities or even increase in salary.
I am not answering the survey or if I do I am putting everything in the middle. Because if I honest it just ends up being more administrative work for me and no real improvement
Pro: If you share good suggestions, people above you will read them and may implement them.
Con: If you share good suggestions, people above you will read them and may implement them... and take credit for them.
This has been my experience over the last several years filling out employee surveys. When you’re bypassed in normal managerial interactions, your skip-level manager might read your suggestions...and pass them off as their own. Then in turn your skip manager's direct reports pass them as their own and so forth.
For example, I’ve submitted suggestions directly to my manager, only to have them ignored. So, I turn to the employee survey, hoping to be heard. My skip manager reads the survey and introduces my ideas to their direct reports as if they came up with them. Later, my manager presents the same ideas to my team as though his own. I then try to remind my manager of these same ideas I shared with him that he thought unimportant. What's the point of having 1-on-1's?
It’s great to see my ideas implemented, but it’s frustrating when others higher up the chain get credit, promotions, and monetary rewards, while I’m left with nothing...not even a bonus. What’s the point of performance reviews when it’s all about power dynamics and credit-stealing?
This year, I’m done giving away my ideas for free on employee surveys. No more freebies.
They certainly don’t use it to improve pay and staff sentiment. They use it to develope fake little programs that don’t mean diddly squat and just waste our time. It’s an obnoxiously long survey.
please write in how stupid RTO is please!
They will tell you they are confidential. Do not believe this for one minute. Can they use it against you probably.