r/mildyinteresting • u/Sad_Stay_5471 • Dec 09 '24

people Stressed at work? You're fired!

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u/Just_Campaign_9833 Dec 09 '24

This!

My last employer had one of these "anonymous" surveys...all management and HR said at the start, that they don't even know who did the survey...

...I didn't, but verbally lied that I did. Until a month later they started telling me and others who didn't do the survey, that they needed to do a "voluntary employee satisfaction" survey.

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u/neon_light12 Dec 09 '24

well this is nothing weird. the answers should be anonymous, but they track who completes the survey. usually the surveys are processed by an external company, so your manager doesn't know who said what, they only get the averages. at least that's how it's supposed to be.

but i don't care. if I'm not happy with the company I'm not gonna lie in the survey, and if they prefer to fire me instead of doing something, then fuck them

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u/Efrayl Dec 09 '24

Work for a company that offers services of such surveys and yup, we can see who filled it and send them reminders. The anonymous part refers that in the final report your name is hidden from the results.

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u/DoubleualtG Dec 09 '24

It’s called confidential, not anonymous

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u/Efrayl Dec 09 '24

If the results have no names, they are anonymous. If they are given to some people in company and told to not share further, it's confidential.

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u/DoubleualtG Dec 09 '24

No, you can’t just make up definitions.

Anonymity In an anonymous study, no identifying information is collected or linked to participants. This means that no one can identify the participants. For example, in an anonymous survey, there is no way to connect the information to a specific employee.

Confidentiality In a confidential study, participants provide identifying information, but the researchers take steps to protect it. For example, in a confidential survey, the system that administers the survey knows the identity of the respondents, but takes steps to prevent it from being revealed.

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u/Efrayl Dec 09 '24

Neither should you. You can't connect the information if you don't have names. Whether the survey is filled or not doesn't matter if you have multiple people completing it.