[trescenzi]

Yea we saw an anonymous question “Are you using AI to be more efficient” start at 30/70 yes/no and flip to 90/10 after a mandate. I know that’s a very different question but it shows that anon questions are still directly influenced by everything else going on. Hopefully a question like the author recommends would be more accurate but I’d still expect a heavy influence based upon management’s stance.

[simoncion]

Savvy folks know that anonymous surveys that require you to sign in with any account are not anonymous. If a director -say- knows how many people in which groups have and have not filled out the survey, it's very much not anonymous.

[inigyou]

So is any anonymous survey that you got emailed a link to. That link is certainly different from your coworker. There are far too many stories of "anonymous" survey answers being used to discipline employees for anyone to trust the any more.

[simoncion]

Yep.

The only surveys you can trust even a little are the ones whose link gets sent to a wide-spread mailing list and work just fine without presenting anything tying you to the company.