Is it me or is the survey late this year? Probably won't happen at this rate and if it doesn't that is all you need to know about the state of the company. For the MC, ignorance is bliss.
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They also get rid of people who don't fill it out. So there is no downside to not filling it out.
Don’t fill it out.. they don’t want to fix the problems. Just get rid of the people that have the guts to speak up.
Tempting as it is to write comments in that wide open box you should NEVER do it. Surveys are never completely anonymous. They have ways of finding you. Also, having worked on surveys at one point in my career, I can tell you that they are usually homogenized. A survey team picks the ones they want to share. As for the questions, always choose the middle reply. Example: Never, Sometimes, Always = Sometimes. And of course 1-2-3-4-5 = 3.
Everything that was said in the survey responses last year were chalked up to the RTO message and ignored. They intentionally delayed the survey until they delivered the RTO policy.
So happy to be somewhere new where managers are actually managing performance and results, not attendance. It's refreshing to be treated like a professional adult.
Unfortunately, NOT filling out the survey hurts you too. If you're part of a team that doesn't fill one out, it shows a lack of engagement with your manager. Your manager gets put on a PIP, and has to come up with a plan to re-engage the team. Those plans get passed down to YOU in the form of more busy work.
The survey questions are designed NOT to point out the problems with FB. They are designed to show the failure of your manager and their manager in engaging you with the corporate line (drinking the kool-aid). The free form comments section allows them to figure out who completed the survey by writing style, grammar, and spelling.
I will pray we don’t have a survey this year. It’s just gas lit into things to support the executive narrative no matter what the results are.
Fill it out so you can get bonus keystrokes for sapience.
Some of you will remember that we were told that one of the key reasons for RTO and “collocation” (which we all know is complete nonsense because this is a global company and even these awesome wizards of oz couldn’t cram 40,000 staff into little bh or any other site) was that management was directly addressing a need WE identified in the survey.
Really?
Yes, it’s true: many of us responded negatively in the survey to questions asking us to rate the quality of intra- and inter-organizational communication, coordination, alignment, etc., in the company.
Why did we respond negatively?
Because for the most part, projects, teams, processes, and workflows seemed to be (and were in fact) chaotic, out of control, and managed in organizational silos with little or no cross-team communication (and often little or no communication within the individual teams themselves).
So when RTO and “collocation” were rolled out, management proudly said “we listened to you, and do we have a great solution: RTO and “collocation”.
And so now we’re crammed together and we’re all happily collaborating together at our desks, and we don’t need Teams meetings anymore because we’re all together now, and there’s no more chaos and all orgs are working efficiently and harmoniously.
Right!? Not by a very very long shot!
Maybe the moral of the story is to think twice about what you put in the survey and, as others have said, don’t expect anything good to come of it.
And maybe, also as others have said, there’s simply no point in it whatsoever, because it’s just another gaslighting exercise intended to bolster whatever motivation management might have right now, like let’s get everyone to do this because what counts is participation - not the ratings, not the feedback - what counts is the percentage who submitted responses, because that’s what really counts. Yep, you got it, that sure is what really counts….
Old First Data here…the first time we did a survey under FB the results were so bad that he had us do it again but re-worded the questions so that bad results were improbable, particularly anything bad related to him.
JFC. Please let the survey f’n die. I haven’t filled it out in two years because the MC is tone deaf.
We can pick it back up when this burnt pancake gets flipped at the top of the house. So, 2028?
I will not ever fill out another one!
I have not heard of the prior survey results and you're asking about a new one? Comical!
It’s a total joke anyway. They just ignore reality, spin the results and pump a narrative. Kind of like Congress.
It's pointless anyway. Do not fill it out.