If you actually want to hold the “leaders” in this company accountable, consider not taking the survey at all.
Management is heavily pressured to drive survey participation, and leaders are held accountable for the overall participation rate. That means participation itself is a metric they care about.
We’ve taken these surveys before. We’ve provided honest, detailed feedback before. Ask yourself how much of that feedback resulted in meaningful change.
A low participation rate is different. It can’t be polished into a favorable engagement score or buried in a comment summary. If enough employees simply choose not to participate, the lack of participation becomes the message.
You can fill out another survey and hope this time the feedback gets heard.
Or you can decide that declining to participate is your feedback.
Tell a friend.