Remember, the global employee survey comes out on September 4. Make sure that you fill it out, and fill it out completely honestly. Blast management with the lowest scores ever.
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They monitor your zip address, gain access and falsely accuse. And HR and the C-Suite looks at this low old republicans looked at Drudge Report before Matt Dridge sold it to liberals.
They hid the results for several years because so many employees named names of execs and Raps and others who pushed fake accounts and sc--wed over hourly employees to save their hide.
I was brutally honest the last few years. Last year, we never even reviewed the results. Why would I bother taking it again this year when I never found out the results from last year? Counterproductive, which is on par with everything else this company does.
"We need people to do the right thing and resign." LOL...
Well, I did the right thing and worked today. I did not take the Global Employee survey. No point in taking being as so many of us, including me will be laid off soon! That's correct, laid off. Displaced in the near future. Not quitting!
Last year, I was quite straightforward in my feedback about removing QA testers from the project. Interestingly, the company responded by hiring 15 JPs - senior-level positions, including Principal Engineers in automation, Lead Special Engineers in automation, and a Technical Director of Automation. It's worth noting that these roles are all high-level and do not involve direct contributions. Now, in addition to struggling with a lack of testers, we’re also dealing with internal politics related to these new additions. 😊
Instead of using 10 minutes to fill out the survey, go for a 10 minute walk. It will be a far better use of your time.
I'm also not able to read either the privacy policy or terms of use, both of which you have to agree to before taking the survey. Last year, the privacy policy included a long list of sensitive information the survey provider has the right to access such as your financial and health details. Even though the company says it won't share this type of sensitive information, why do we have to give the survey company the right to access it? One more reason to not take the survey.
Survey wants you to accept the privacy notice, but won’t let you read it.
I used to think that way. What you're missing is that no matter how legit your complaints are about THEM, they will intentionally misinterpret them to harass YOU in response. That's how it works, every single time. Been seeing it for years, through multiple regimes. The current execs, especially, never ever change course no matter how bad their ideas fail and no matter how many people tell them it's failing.
Tanking their participation scores is the ONLY move here. That's the best way to say "the problem is you" to an exec. Don't give them anything else to use against you.
The email says Help shape our future in just 10 minutes, but it references things that don’t make a difference like expanded learning opportunities, Employee Appreciation Week, and state of the art workplaces. If they’re not going to bother improving their communications, want to offshore the bulk of our jobs, don’t provide real wage increases, and aren’t listening to our needs on tech, why bother? They won’t tell us anything about the results for at least 6 months (last few years it was about a year later) and most of us will be zz by then.
The only winning move is not to play.
As others have said the best way to say something is to not complete the survey. Senior leaders never seem to care about the results but they do care about participation metrics.
If you're angry and disappointed with how things are being done, then please fill out the survey and rate things as low as you can. It does have an impact, the board sees the overall results. Your feedback is indeed anonymous as long as there's nothing close to an HR complaint in your comments (s-xual harassment or racial discrimination or criminal wrongdoing). When a leader scores low compared to their peers on a certain area, it is noted. When WF scores lower than industry average on an area, that is also definitely discussed at the highest levels. Yes, there might not actually be any direct action as a result of the survey results, but that's more due to mismanagement than a willful desire to ignore employee feedback.
Participation rate, by itself, is not something managers are penalized or rewarded for. The reason every company is pushing for a larger participation rate is because they know that the angriest employees are the ones most likely to fill out the survey. So if you increase the survey participation rate, then all the people that feel like things are "fine enough" will drown out the angry employees' numerical responses. That's why it's very important that you do fill out the survey if you're upset about management.
Don't do it!
Don’t do it. That says more than any box you check or comment you write.
I was voluntold to be on an engagement group as a result of the survey. We had to meet once a week to talk about nothing since we had no power and no budget. At the time the feedback was people wanted wfh which was a total non-starter. At the end of the cycle we came up with some meaningless metric that will do nothing. So I guess it was successful. Lol
I was part of some action group last year, and the only thing management did was make more meetings since people complained they didn’t communicate enough.
When they used to discuss the results, and it’s been a while here in CIB, they would use the work “opportunities” when going over the low scores. They would spin it like the best of them. I don’t recall anything ever changing. Complete joke.
I was brutally honest….many that I know were. They just ignored it and pretended it wasn’t there
Really? I can't believe they keep posting on here for us to quit or resign. That's taking it too far asking that on tomorrow's survey. Nobody is quitting. S
I was brutally honest last year. Interestingly, nothing that I complained about was mentioned in the team survey results. The issues that I raised were never addressed. Given this, I don’t know if the survey is worth my time.
We're focusing on the question regarding if you plan to resign soon. We need people to do the right thing and resign.
The problem is it always seems most of it is geared toward your immediate manager and maybe from the director level down. I’m fine with the management over me at those levels. It’s the c-suite I’d loved to blast, but there’ll probably be at most one or two questions even tangentially pertaining to them.
Friends don't let friends take surveys. They will ONLY be used against you. Not positive outcomes are possible. I'm done with it.
Don't take it! All they care about is engagement metrics and by taking it, you're "engaging."
...And then get fired.
It's best to just not take it.