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My old employer would 'anonymously' throw those at us too.
Our one supervisor got 6 months of once a week propaganda training because our *tiny* department got overly honest when we hit the, 'I feel senior management is doing a great job' part. No, the 5 million dollar man (CEO) wasn't the best thing ever, the merger idea is dumb and other disloyal thoughts. Subtle questions like 'how long have you worked here' and the *unique survey link* that is not to be shared are subtle hints.
Stop filling out the surveys
My rule of thumb is anything that anything electronic, isn't anonymous. For example, at a prior role, HR stated repeatedly that our yearly surveys were anonymous yet they would send emails directly to individuals admonishing them for not filling them out. Plus many areas, such as mine only had a few people, so they could pretty much guess who said what. And yes, when comments were made, they would make it right back to whoever said them. The only survey I ever had even close to anonymous was years back, and was an old fashioned pen and paper submission y/n form with a small comment area. Even then people would skip the comment area or have a friend fill out because nobody wanted their handwriting noticed. Skip them as much as you can.
Then why didn’t you reply to them, asking how they knew you hadn’t filled out the survey. If it was anonymous.
Have a paper trail of their response.
Sounds like you work for the V.A.?
If it has a link specific to you, it is not anonymous. If you voice your complaints in real life, it is not anonymous. If you have a unique writing style, it is not anonymous. I'm always honest in a respectful way on my surveys.
I stopped filling them out because I would get emails saying that a few people from my practice didn’t fill out the survey.
Depends on what you say or how you say it but even without identifiers an employer who pays attention to employees can easily pick out feedback from certain employees. Especially if the employer has a good assessment of his work force
I work at HCA and they are up-front that it's not anonymous.
Just don’t fill it out
If can't be honest then dont deserve my attention at all!
I don't do them cause of that. And you need to report them to corporate. Its is ILLEAL!!!!! Stand your ground. Pray about it! Good Luck!!
That's what they say, but I always answered positive. I didn't trust them to be anonymous
If you look at the backside information in the link, it's attached to the email it was sent to.
So no, 90% of the time they are not anonymous
They are definitely not anonymous.
My company swears it’s anonymous. Once we log in we know they have our number based on that. We don’t care. We had to take a stand and it got results. Our survey goes to the CEO and he recognized there’s a problem culturally at our site and it needed to be addressed.
I've been told that you have to log in so they know you work there and are eligible to participate, but that any written feedback is given to them. Being able to give feedback without sounding like yourself or saying something that you have previously told them..... I give negative ratings and say N/A to comments for that very reason.
The survey purpose is for them to say 100% participation and then fix some random thing so they can say "Look how we listened to you!"
My NEW manager came to our department and stated “ I only want 100% positive feedback” “and everyone one of you better do this survey”! My thoughts:
Number 1- sorry honey, I already pushed the button and you and all the admin are burning.
Number two: it’s illegal to tell us how to answer the “anonymous”survey.
Number three: how did we go from essential healthcare heroes to zeros in less than 5 years?!