More of a curiosity here, pretty much wherever you work there are quarterly or yearly anonymous surveys about management, work culture, expectations, etc.. It's interesting that if you don't complete it you get emails, texts, or even calls from management about not completing the survey. And even then, do you they believe that they are anonymous? I've never believed that they are, mainly due to either myself or seeing others getting oddly specific feedback about what I have entered or others have entered on the surveys. The reason I thought of this, I had a random article pop up about it on my news feed
I get them from time to time and I don't believe for a minute that they're actually anonymous. That said, it doesn't affect my answers because my responses to those surveys aren't any different than what I'd say to our CEO's face.
In 2013, when AbbVie and Abbott Laboratories split into 2 corporations, AbbVie sent out a ton of surveys. But with the first one, a story went out with it detailing how historically surveys in businesses were used as a temporary boost in productivity. Even though no actual changes took place, people worked harder/faster/better if they ‘believed’ working conditions would improve. Richard Gonzales wanted his new employees to believe that anything in the surveys would be acted upon. The ‘culture’ at AbbVie was vastly different from Abbott (the two companies continued to work closely together) and AbbVie employees were more productive. Did the culture change due to the surveys? Or was it all in the employee’s heads and they changed the culture themselves? Either way, it’s about how you feel about your job. It’s definitely NOT anonymous.
I believe they're anonymous (grouped according to department) but I also don't expect that they won't necessarily recognize any text I write Or at least say "oh, it's this person again, same thing they said last time"
