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You're basically describing Officevibe. It emails people with some frequency between weekly and monthly, and it only asks you a few questions every time. Most

You're basically describing Officevibe. It emails people with some frequency between weekly and monthly, and it only asks you a few questions every time. Mostly it's a 1-10 scale thing, with cute little graphics. It also asks open ended questions where you're told the answers are anonymous. That's all well and good, but if your manager can't figure out who's who from the tone of the message, they're a new manager. And sure, it sounds like a great idea to spot issues. The instant two managers compare scores, or worse, are compelled to compare scores, all bets are off on it's usefulness. Then when you have a meeting where a high level manager painfully asks for input on how to make things better from the entire team while going over each chart in painful detail, the clear goal every individual contributor has is to just pick 8 or 9 and make the stupid meetings stop.

lb1lf 6y ago
-At a former employer - a vast engineering multinational - we had a big, annual questionnaire to determine how happy we were to work there. 'On a scale from 1-10, how satisfied are you with...' We were assured the results were only to be used in aggregate and no response would be possible to trace back to the individual who'd made it. I almost fell off my chair laughing when the report had been compiled - the responses were anonymized. Of sorts. Responses used in aggregate. Of sorts. The engineer, female, age bracket 40-49 years, $SITE in the office next door wasn't as amused. As the sample size was one, her every response had been printed in the report. Oops.
- notabee 6y ago
  Recently had a similar "anonymization" experience in a workplace survey. There were a lot of short answer questions, and people's names were converted into numbers. The same number for each employee, on every question. Not exactly hard to correlate who's who with a few dozen responses from each person. They also failed completely to clean up any names mentioned in the reponses.
- namrog84 6y ago
  Where I work our similar reports only will show average number values in context of at least 6 responses. And open ended text responses in context where at least 25 people responded. So often a direct manager can't see open ended text in their context but their skip level manager could. They shouldn't have ever reported on a sample size of 1. That's a bad system
abqio 6y ago
Officevibe is not anonymous in certain circumstances. It shows which city (And maybe IP?) the questions were answered from. If you're working remotely this could easily identify you.
- banana_giraffe 6y ago
  Huh. I am working remotely (well, most of my team is now), but more importantly, I'm the only person in the city I'm in. Not that it really changes my responses, I've kind of always assumed my anonymity wasn't guaranteed with this, though it does make me hate Officevibe just a little bit more. I should start responding to the survey behind a different VPN endpoint each time. See if anyone asks questions.
  - must_ache 6y ago
    Officevibe doesn't track your city, I don't know where he got that from.

lb1lf 6y ago

-At a former employer - a vast engineering multinational - we had a big, annual questionnaire to determine how happy we were to work there. 'On a scale from 1-10, how satisfied are you with...' We were assured the results were only to be used in aggregate and no response would be possible to trace back to the individual who'd made it. I almost fell off my chair laughing when the report had been compiled - the responses were anonymized. Of sorts. Responses used in aggregate. Of sorts. The engineer, female, age bracket 40-49 years, $SITE in the office next door wasn't as amused. As the sample size was one, her every response had been printed in the report. Oops.

notabee 6y ago
Recently had a similar "anonymization" experience in a workplace survey. There were a lot of short answer questions, and people's names were converted into numbers. The same number for each employee, on every question. Not exactly hard to correlate who's who with a few dozen responses from each person. They also failed completely to clean up any names mentioned in the reponses.
namrog84 6y ago
Where I work our similar reports only will show average number values in context of at least 6 responses. And open ended text responses in context where at least 25 people responded. So often a direct manager can't see open ended text in their context but their skip level manager could. They shouldn't have ever reported on a sample size of 1. That's a bad system

abqio 6y ago

Officevibe is not anonymous in certain circumstances. It shows which city (And maybe IP?) the questions were answered from. If you're working remotely this could easily identify you.

banana_giraffe 6y ago
Huh. I am working remotely (well, most of my team is now), but more importantly, I'm the only person in the city I'm in. Not that it really changes my responses, I've kind of always assumed my anonymity wasn't guaranteed with this, though it does make me hate Officevibe just a little bit more. I should start responding to the survey behind a different VPN endpoint each time. See if anyone asks questions.
- must_ache 6y ago
  Officevibe doesn't track your city, I don't know where he got that from.