Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics built in

Re:Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics bui... by pklausler on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @04:18PM (#25203097)

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."

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Re:Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics bui... by reaperducer on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @06:18PM (#25204172)

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.

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Re:Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics bui... by tintor on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @08:42PM (#25205094)

Surveys can't be anonymous if they require login or custom URL for each user.

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Re:Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics bui... by rtkwe on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @09:50PM (#25205513)

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).

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Re:Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics bui... by tintor on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @10:54PM (#25216665)

Problem is that as user of the survey you can't verify that results are decoupled from the URL / login.

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