When you get reminders in your email that you have not taken the surveys, makes you realize they are not so anonymous.
Most managers won't know exactly who took which survey, but they obviously can decipher the writing style and common themes.
However H.R. and many others absolutely know who took which survey and what was said and even the time the survey was taken. I have friends with other companies who have been pulled aside and spoken to about things written on surveys. Also, they have to do this for obvious reasons safety/security/ legal reasons etc. but be very careful about what you write and possibly don't write anything. Also, be careful about taking a negative survey, some companies focus on these for who to target for reduction in force purposes.
To ignore this would be foolish. For 5+ years I have chose to not take any surveys at all since I firmly believe that nothing at all would ever change. I mean literally everyone wants to work from home but the company obviously gets the final say. Your voice unfortunately doesn't matter that much.
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WASTE OF TIME with this JUNK, it empowers SVP's and A0's along with the dinosaurs to fire Dissent....
I’m not filling out the manager survey. Waste of time. They have no control over anything anyways and I don’t want to negatively affect her, but I want to send a message to leadership that I will not participate in this nonsense because they don’t care either.
As someone in tech who creates these internal Qualtrcs surveys these are far from "anonymous" and it's common practice to filter out negative and disgruntled surveys to be used later for retaliation (performance feedback). Your device, machine, your name, badge, logs, date and time of submission, length of time it took, start and end time of survey, every detail is logged in Qualtrcs. Survey results are then graded and aggregated. The worst surveys can be isolated and identified. Point being the results that are publicized like Pulse surveys only reflect the most positive. The worst are always filtered out (and remain identified for use in performance discussions, PIPs, etc. at a later date) otherwise the public scores would never be above the desired outcome. Propaganda at it's finest. Is it true that the public results and scores are aggregated? Yes. Is it also true that the filtered out negative surveys are heavily identified and stored with corporate services, HR, and tech? Absolutely. It's a case of talking out of both sides of the mouth. These are not mutually exclusive.
Fidelity will spin the survey results regardless. If you don't take the survey they'll view that as everything is great. we've gotten no complaints. The negative will also be spun but ignored when it comes to reflecting and taking action (look at how they handled the last few years with dynamic working RTO).
Despite the spin, this is the only outlet we have left to let them know how much this place has deteriorated...so I'm taking it. Unless you say something egregious they won't fire you, While the data is there I don't think they're looking at who said what, unless it's egregious in which case they can find out if they go digging if it's cause for termination. Don't give them a reason to go digging. Be polite and respectful but don't hold back. For me, I'm not scared, and i'm taking it. In fact i wouldn't mind at all if this put me on a list for the next round of RIFs
So in that case I am most definitely taking the survey and answering truthfully so that I get laid off in the next round.
Never waste time and effort on these surveys
nothing changes here, no change in culture, salary or toxic, coasting associates who should have been let go 20 years ago