What platform/method do you use for ANNONYMOUS Employee Surveys?
I have recently had an ask from our HR Department about what our Digital Workplace could offer in regard to Annonymous Employee Surveys. Obviously, ANNONYMOUS is the keyword.
At first, I thought about an iframe using an offline form application using Gadget Depot's iframe generator (widget) using a URL, instead of an embed code. However, using this widget still posed some issues with the ability to track the iframe "page" and marry it up to the "annonymous" entry.
Another option I thought of was Survey Monkey. However, HR didn't like this idea as it doesn't have the ability to perform statistics based on employee responses. Survey Monkey has the ability to provide "basic" analytics, but not what our HR team needs for deep analysis.
So, I am asking what others use? How do you roll it out and promote it within your digital workplace?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Nicole Cummins
Digital Workplace Manager
1 Answer
From a HR perspective we use Survey Monkey for all our staff and client feedback and quality assurance. Depending on how your structure the questions then Survey Monkey analysis can be useful although basic. However we tend to export results to Excel to analysis and format results as needed. We then produce our own infographics using Canva to promote via Blog articles on our platform. You just have to really think about your questions structure to make analysis in Survey Monkey easier as open ended text questions can make this more complex / time consuming. Multiple choice or ratings are helpful.
We embed all of of survey links on a Quality Assurance area on our platform using Call to Action widgets and they are then are always available.
Here's an extract of that page.
Hope this helps
Rachel
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Hi Nicole,
Survey Monkey was on my mind until I reached that part of your post! I've seen customers use Google forms with anonymous settings to achieve what you are after too. Analytics may be a gap, but I believe a CSV export from google forms would allow for further manipulation in excel.
We're a Microsoft shop, so we use Microsoft Forms, which all of our users can use to create embeddable/linkable surveys. The embeds work really well, too! You can toggle to collect surveys anonymously or to (by default) collect the name/email of users within your organization.
For analytics - based on your description I would call Forms "basic+". There are some interesting insights that can be offered, but likely for deeper analysis the results would need to be pulled into Excel (which Microsoft Forms offers natively) or further into an analytics tool.
From a HR perspective we use Survey Monkey for all our staff and client feedback and quality assurance. Depending on how your structure the questions then Survey Monkey analysis can be useful although basic. However we tend to export results to Excel to analysis and format results as needed. We then produce our own infographics using Canva to promote via Blog articles on our platform. You just have to really think about your questions structure to make analysis in Survey Monkey easier as open ended text questions can make this more complex / time consuming. Multiple choice or ratings are helpful.
We embed all of of survey links on a Quality Assurance area on our platform using Call to Action widgets and they are then are always available.
Here's an extract of that page.
Hope this helps
Rachel
I'm a little late to this thread, but we use Qualtrics for HR surveys. The reporting (and arguably, data security) is a little more robust than with Survey Monkey. There are iFrame options and a Teams integration that works well with our employees. The one weird thing is that only the first question appears in the frame and once they answer it moves them over to the secured Qualtrics site. It's pretty seamless because of SSO, but I don't think you can access the whole survey in the iFrame.
All responses are anonymous unless you choose to track it. Sometimes if we want to avoid the log in process to reinforce the 'anonymous', we just drop in the survey link behind a button. It's more about optics.