Microsoft employees satisfaction poll leaked (like every year)

Author Moonshot.news

Published on: 15/04/2021

In the traditional yearly leak of the internal MS Poll results, Microsoft employees seem to be mostly satisfied with their workplace, if we exclude the compensation topic that seems to follow a negative trend: but that must be only natural as it is hard to imagine an employee answering: ‘I am greatly happy with my salary, please do not pay me more’!

Big companies are known for conducting internal annual surveys to ‘take the pulse’ and find out how employees feel about topics such as leadership, work-life balance, and compensation.

In Microsoft’s case, this would include a group of approximately 149,000 eligible employees, who are every year strongly encouraged to answer the poll questions, regarding their team, their direct manager, but also more general questions about how they feel versus the company.

INCLUSION INDEX

According to media reports, this year’s leaked MS Poll, the category with the most favorable responses was the so-called “Inclusion Index,” which Microsoft defines in one document as “authenticity, belonging, belief in the commitment to diversity.” That category received 90% favorable responses.

Meanwhile, 84% of employees answered favorably to questions in the “Work Group Health Index,” which Microsoft defines as career development, immediate manager, work group climate, and work-life flexibility. It’s unclear how the pandemic-forced shift to remote work impacted the results, as Microsoft has a strong work remotely mentality pre-COVID and some questions differ from one year to the other.

ENGAGEMENT INDEX

Across the company, 81% of employees answered favorably to questions in the “Engagement Index,” defined as enthusiasm, advocacy, intent to stay, and 79% of employees answered favorably to “Learning Index” questions about learning experiences and environment.

There is one category, the “Leadership Excellence Index,” is administered only to high-level Microsoft employees, qualified as level 65 and above. Microsoft has a hierarchy of levels from 59 to 80, and level 65 is where the top tier of the company starts with the esteemed title of “principal.”

Answers to the MS Poll are supposed to be anonymous and comments regarding an employee’s direct manager are visible only to their skip manager – but of course managers get the feeling of the team sentiment and action items following the results.