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It's a good idea to have that policy and be careful. I submitted a comment in a similar office survey service and despite my submission being anonymous, shortl
by milesokeefe 10y ago
It's a good idea to have that policy and be careful.
I submitted a comment in a similar office survey service and despite my submission being anonymous, shortly after submitting it, a superior had a meeting with me to address what the anonymous complaint was about, having determined the comment was from me.
In this case I was very glad they figured it out because it ended up being a low risk way of bringing up my concern, but had I not had such a great employer, the result could have been me getting fired or something similar.
The comment was only one short sentence and there were 50-100 people employed at the company, so if you want to be honest on platforms like this, I would limit what you say and obfuscate as much as you can. It doesn't take much to identify you.
- josephg 10y ago> ... but had I not had such a great employer ... > despite my submission being anonymous, shortly after submitting it, a superior had a meeting with me I'm glad you had a good experience, but a great employer wouldn't have lied to you about the survey being anonymous.
- dlgeek 10y agoThere's a difference between "This survey is anonymous"/"Hey, Bob ranked his satisfaction with his manager as 1/5", and "This survey is anonymous"/"Here's a list of complaints from your team"/"Oh, this one is a complaint about how X impacts Y - I know Bob's the only one who's expressed interest in that in the past, I bet it's from him". If my employer told me a survey was anonymous, I would expect anonymity on the Rank/Rate/True-False type questions, but assume that any freeform comments would be identifiable to someone as being from me based on style, content or something else.
- milesokeefe 10y agoThis is correct. I believe the system is anonymous to employers. My employer explicitly said they determined it was me based on context.