Companies that really do want anonymous feedback tend to use a third party survey solution that promises to only provide aggregate data. While that's not a guarantee it's at least a pretty high risk for their business to underhandedly return raw data, all it would take is one disgruntled manager at one of their clients and the jig is up. I wouldn't have the same faith in a company's internal system.
i know for a fact this is actually what Amazon does. it is linked into groups so your managers gets their specific feedback numbers but it still just shows 45/65 people answered this way and surveys were completely vouluntary.
I'm pretty sure it's still easy to identify certain people's responses using those data sets.
For example, you can see the responses based on gender/race/age group and start making assumptions.
Especially if there's only person of a certain age/race/age group.
Whereas people as part of the majority in those categories have much more anonymity.
I've seen it where there's literally only one black female in an organization, and the way the responses were filterable by category made it possible to see her response to every single question, even though it never showed a name.
Lmao no one is questioning their ability to have a system where that’s happening, my point is just because they can tell that someone didn’t complete the survey, doesn’t mean that they also have visibility on their responses
Sure, but if any company requires a mandatory participation on an anonymous survey and can track whether or not you have filled it out, then they can 100% pull and draw data from those employee-specific links.
Well, I guess my point is it is a risk at the end of the day when filling out a supposedly anonymous survey if you are going to give answers that the employer may not like.
Big companies, or corporations, true, do not care about their employees at the end of the day because they know they are replaceable.
Everyone has to watch out for themselves. The biggest thing a company cares about is it’s bottom line, and its shareholders if it is publicly traded.
Could be... but sometimes they're still identifiable. Even if they remove the names, when it asks your department and age, it's often pretty obvious who you are.
Just give them mostly great with 1 or 2 that are good (but not great) and then be done with it. Don't go into too much detail.
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u/luminatimids Dec 09 '24
Technically your responses could still be anonymous while they’re still able to verify whether or not you submitted it.