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My organization has also switched to web-based "frequent quick anonymous surveys". I always do them to keep my boss out of trouble for poor response rates, but

My organization has also switched to web-based "frequent quick anonymous surveys". I always do them to keep my boss out of trouble for poor response rates, but I skip all of the questions and just add a comment that I don't believe in the anonymity guarantee. Someday, I'll get asked why that is, and I'll get a chance to quote Seymour Cray's "I think that you just answered your own question."

reaperducer 6y ago
While going over the latest "anonymous" department survey early last year, one of the HR people slipped up and said something like, "...and Mike had really good feedback at the end of his survey." She then had to admit that the surveys weren't anonymous. A lot of people were pissed. We haven't had a survey since.
- tintor 6y ago
  Surveys can't be anonymous if they require login or custom URL for each user.
  - rtkwe 6y ago
    They can be if the results are decoupled from the tracking URL and the results aren't shown live (to avoid a really dedicated manager matching changes in the results to changes in who's responded).
    - tintor 6y ago
      Problem is that as user of the survey you can't verify that results are decoupled from the URL / login.