This should be fun..results are going to be abysmal and we'll all get blamed...not the sh---y leadership.
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Executive directors and directors will just punish employees for being honest. This is in the hopes to force people to be quiet and say how great everything is just so they don’t make it worse. They are about to do more layoffs and we still have not recovered from the last round. I think all layoffs should be director and above. Can’t afford any more people who actually to the work.
Executive Directors are desperately sending "reminders" (pleas) to get their people to respond to the survey when it starts up soon.
My team ripped them to shreds on the last survey and it just resulted in a bunch more work for the team to come up with ideas to "improve culture and morale" so I don't plan to even respond this time.
Dear directors & VPs: If your team hates their jobs, it's not their job to make their jobs better. It's yours.
Not worth the hassle to give your honest opinion. Negative comments are usually brushed off anyway. “a few unhappy people”
why bother?
FYI on Heartbeat if you search “engagement survey” you can get links to all sorts of slide decks that I’m sure are not intended to be sent out to the masses.
The surveys for employees are not going to change anything. The only time change will occur is if they lose a lot of their customers. CVS is not going to listen to the employees.
I've been very harsh on the surveys, scoring mostly 1's on the last one, including not nice remarks in the (use 3-words to describe) comment section and have not been retaliated against.
If they know who wrote what, then I'd think they also know who didn't take it. Not sure you can win with this survey, unless you want to put all 5's and tell them they're doing great.
Would it ding a sh---y manager more to not respond at all or to score them horribly?
I’m one of 2 people that role up under this director so it would most likely be pretty darn obvious.
I had been a manager there in IT. Surveys are joke, leaders are only interested in making 100% surveys response. Believe me, in PBM IT it is an absolute joke. And they know who wrote what.
its a waste of time and many productive hours talking garbage about it when there is no transparency of the way the leaders act. many are unfit for their role and lack that big picture attitude.
I’ve participated on multiple “Survey Action Teams” where we were tasked with addressing certain areas of concern in our vertical revealed by the engagement survey. We were told which results to address and how to address them- we had to direct improvements toward the individuals who took the survey. It was BS from day 1. The focus is to get 100% of people to take the survey so managers won’t get dinged. I was voluntold to be on those teams, BTW. There’s no real focus on addressing the concerns at all, but that’s obvious at this point.
It’s BS that people can see your names. I have been brutally honest with the last 13 surveys I took and nothing happened to me, and I am a manager. We try to address the low score items as best we can but some things are out of our control.
I will be beyond shocked if there is any engagement survey this year.
It will be “paused to assist in savings” or some other spin about how doing it would cost money and thus they’ll just pause it this year since we all need to make up for aetnas fu-k-up
As a manager we do care about the survey outcomes from a retention perspective. We do attempt to address concerns, not all concerns can be corrected unfortunately. Compensation forever scores low. If I could I would boost pay for internal inequities but it's very difficult to get approved. Trust me we do care, we do try, but powers above sometimes get in our way.
Ain’t participating in any company surveys. They really don’t care.
A few possibilities:
It goes out before any clear comms about layoffs (roasted)
It goes out after comms about layoffs, pre-layoff (roasted)
It goes out after layoffs (roasted)
It gets delayed with no clear reason why (postponed-roasted)
Worst place I worked for. I literally give the basic I can. I hate this company
Lol you think "leadership" gives a fu-k about what any of us think or feel?
Go ahead and scream. No one's going to hear you.
The survey not anonymous .
Read fine prints, it says they can ask for details
These are meaningless and nothing comes from it. There should be a question that says do you have confidence in leadership yes on no.
Anyone who believes the no retaliation BS, go ahead and put your real thoughts on the survey and let us know how that works out.
Managers can filter respondents and their answers by job title if they receive more than 10, I think