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It would be awesome if this had a feature for you to group employees together, or to say what company you worked for.

I'd love to see how my entire team feels on a week over week chart. It should be anonymous to the employer, but it'd be cool to see the stats. But I'm a chart nerd.

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Thanks for the comment. It's evident from the comments in this thread that a lot of people would get value from this. We'll be meeting and reviewing next iterations at the beginning of next week - this will be at the top of the list.

Being able to appear anonymous when sharing your data with team-member is somewhat debatable, I can see benefits on either side here. Ultimately I think if we do introduce this feature, and I strongly suspect we will, anonymity should be controlled by the user e.g. they can opt to share their name with team members or not.

if it's a choice it will soon become a non-choice since if some people on a small team decide not to be anonymous it will be obvious who is whom anyways.

If anonymity is optional there will also likely be some implicit pressure coming from management not to be anonymous, leading to people censoring their true feelings for fear of repercussions ("so, I've noticed for the past few weeks you haven't been happy or productive, maybe this is not a good fit for us")

Not sure, maybe I am being too negative, but when it comes to anonymity and workplace surveys my default setting is "the more the better"

Another idea worth considering might be only revealing team evaluations once everyone has voted, or at least making them invisible for people who haven't voted, to avoid biasing the results.

Like this idea too - kind of like how sprint estimation should be done when using poker cards.

How about a check box to opt-out of being anonymous? Some team members might want to let their manager know their individual stats.

Tick box sounds good.

Should it be opt-out of anonymity or opt-in?

I think having the possibility to not be anonymous would ruin it for the team. Some people might want to show how much they love the company (honest or not) by switching of anonimity. The anonymous group would thus become suspicious.

opt-out of anonymity in my opinion, always default to the safe choice. As your application grows you can make this a setting the manager decides.

Yes, I'd love to send a version of this to my team and ask them to fill it out on periodic basis. The choice to be anonymous would be good. I'm interested in the overall health of the team and to know if there are any negative outliers.

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