Has anybody ever been honest on the Employee Engagement Survey?
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I've never been brave enough to be honest. Our team is small. I always figured they could sort by team, band and geography - compare those reports and they've got me.
(Our manager is VERY punitive and unfortunately a Favorite.)
I used to manage the survey for several high-level LOBs. The things I could tell you! There's no budget for actually doing anything once it comes out (some LOBs have one, most don't). Usually, it's a bunch of communications and maybe a program that leads to nothing for a very small group of people. It's an optional survey, but they shove it down your throat that you need to complete it, need to be at 100% completion! Since that's the statistic they care about, imagine how it goes once they get the results. The survey has barely changed in 15+ years. It's a joke. It's too many questions and it never address actual facts nor established baselines to help make progress. Other companies do quarterly surveys with 5 questions, max, and they typically switch up the questions to focus on key items. Or an annual survey that's 15 - 20 questions but also changing the questions to be reflective of current times/needs. I can't tell you how many times I spoke to the powers that be to try and make the survey something of actual value and, clearly, it's never happened. BTW - It's not anonymous. 2+ years ago, it was. You went through a 3rd party vendor and it was both anonymous and confidential as they scrubbed everything. I saw all the reports. Then they changed it to an in-house link. They never shared this broadly with any of you, though. They claim to scrub the data but I doubt it.
Blasted the f out of them.
Be blunt honest, no personal attacks or it goes in the trash.
If u don't like RTO, comp, promotions for the few, etc.
Say it in the comments
Avoid neither agree/disagree as a answer, those are throw aways. If you don't agree, you disagree.
Say it
It’s the only time you can tell truth about you management. Don’t be afraid but tell the truth.
Was very honest in that I’m wasting my time filling out the form since nothing ever gets done or changed because of it. Compensation is pitiful, they tack on more work when people leave without additional pay. Just a terrible place to work.
Don’t say anything too negative you will end up in a focus group
I gave them an earful this time.
You can say whatever you want within reason. They don’t base layoffs off of that survey. It might influence their view on your manager depending on your grade or if enough people say something about some problem might make them throw a cookie at employees for it but it is more or
less just so they can pull certain percentages from it for talking points or publicity. Write what you want within reason.
I know this has little to do with layoffs, but I'm curious.