Anonymous Surveys & People Reports

This page describes how a survey stays anonymous and when its results appear, and what People Reports counts and where its figures come from. Both are included from the Team plan. This page is part of the reference HR Records, Time Off & Reviews.

What It Does

• A survey. Up to 20 questions, each answered as agreement from 1 to 5, a recommendation from 0 to 10 or a written answer. A survey can be limited to one department.
• How it stays anonymous. An answer sheet is stored with no user id and no timestamp. Separately, the invite records only whether the person has responded. Nobody, HR included, can tie a sheet to a person.
• When results appear. Results are combined figures only. They appear only after the survey is closed and only if at least 5 people answered; below that nothing is shown. There is no breakdown by department or person, and written answers come back in shuffled order.
• One go. A person answers once, with no draft, and cannot change it afterwards. Opening a survey emails every active person in the audience, and after that the questions and audience are fixed. A survey whose audience is smaller than 5 people is refused. Closing cannot be undone.
• People Reports. For a period you choose it shows headcount, joiners, leavers, turnover and average tenure, with six breakdowns and a CSV download. It holds counts and averages, never a list of named people, and a group of fewer than three is shown together as “Other”.

Anonymous Surveys (Included From Team)

My WorkSurveys shows each person the open surveys “For you to answer”. People with the permission to run surveys do so from HR & TalentManage Surveys, which holds “New survey”, “All surveys” and “Trends”. For the step-by-step, see the guide Run an anonymous survey. A survey has up to 20 questions, each answered as “Agree, 1 to 5”, “Recommend, 0 to 10” or “Written answer”, and can be limited to one department.

People Reports (Included From Team)

HR & TalentPeople Reports needs its own permission. For a period you choose it shows five figures — “Headcount”, “Joiners”, “Leavers”, “Turnover” (leavers divided by average headcount) and “Average tenure” — and six breakdowns: by department, by location, by employment type, tenure, leavers by type and leavers by reason. “CSV” downloads the same figures.

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Permissions Behind This Page

Where the sections above say who may see or do something, this is the permission that is checked. What each permission allows is listed in HR Records, Time Off & Reviews.