Conducting anonymous employee surveys
Employee surveys are generally used to assess employees’ motivation, expectations and attitudes towards specific issues. The research objective can generally be achieved anonymously. In addition, from a data protection perspective, an internal company survey is only unobjectionable if it is conducted anonymously.
But take care: Omitting characteristics such as names or personnel numbers is usually not enough to guarantee anonymity. Individual employees may still be identified by combining several answers. Responses may also be linked to individuals if the survey groups are very small. Cross-tabulation can likewise often be used to attribute answers to specific employees (for example, department = XY + level = head of department).
Tip: We recommend asking for aggregated ranges (income of €1,000–€2,000, length of service of 3–10 years). The sample should never contain fewer than five people. For example, if a team has fewer than five people, do not ask respondents to identify that team, or combine it with other small teams.
Employee response behaviour is another area in which anonymity matters. You will only obtain honest, meaningful results if your workforce knows that the survey is anonymous. As information about anonymity is often not enough, particularly where trust is already lacking, you can also give employees access to the survey tool. This allows anyone interested to view the results and all data, helping to resolve any uncertainty. With a suitably anonymous questionnaire, this offers considerable advantages.
Tip: Even for anonymous surveys, LamaPoll can send personalised reminder emails to participants who have not yet completed the survey.
What is LamaPoll?
LamaPoll is a survey tool for creating employee surveys and measuring employee satisfaction. You can use it to create, conduct and analyse all types of employee survey. Create your employee survey in just a few steps, apply your organisation’s corporate design and invite employees conveniently by email or via your intranet. You can quickly gain insights that help improve employee satisfaction. You can register for our survey tool free of charge and immediately conduct surveys for up to 50 employees with no obligation. If you need more responses to your online employee survey questionnaire, simply choose one of our monthly plans. You can also use our employee survey questionnaire templates and examples.
