Published on 12, July, 2020
Whilst I should appreciate that my employer welcomes anonymous employee feedback through the annual Employee Opinion Survey, I do find some questions a bit triggering.
A couple of questions this time round...
"I think that Diversity, Equality & Inclusion are important issues in the workplace"I don't believe that there are any issues with this at my workplace - if there were, then yes there would be a problem.However, I find answering this question [honestly] is difficult.I don't care that you're black, white, gold, green, yellow, etc.I don't care that you're male, female, non-binary or whatever.I don't care that you're straight, gay or whatever flavour of sexual preference.What I DO CARE ABOUT is whether you are capable of doing your job.
"I have good friends where I work"I don't have any issues with the people that I work with - we make a great team and get along fine.However, I wouldn't consider any of them as "friends" - I have very few friends in my social circle (by choice).Given that we all work remotely (some in a different country) it is extremely rare that we meet in person.
I know that it shouldn't bother me - especially as it is anonymous, but I this has knocked me out of kilter for 30 mins+Why can't I simply select the relevant answer (disagree / agree / strongly agree / NA) without it sending my mind into overdrive?
Does anyone else struggle with such things as Employee Opinion Surveys?
Employers would be foolish to ask me fill one of those out..