TL;DRMicrosoft excluded its long-running “good deal” compensation question from the main results of its latest employee survey. Workers are questioning the decision on internal forums, with some noting a disconnect between positive survey data and widespread internal dissent.
For years, one question in Microsoft’s internal employee survey served as a reliable pressure gauge. It asked whether staff felt they were getting a “good deal at Microsoft,” defined as “a reasonable balance between what I contribute to Microsoft and what I get in return.” When the scores dropped low enough, the company responded with significant pay rises.
When Microsoft released the results of its latest employee sentiment surveys, that question was nowhere to be found in the main report. Nor, employees noted, was a question about confidence in company leadership. Workers took to an internal message board to ask why, according to Business Insider, which viewed copies of the comments.
“Can you please provide clarity on whether or not the question has been removed and why,” one employee wrote in a post that attracted more than 200 thumbs-up reactions. Another replied with a meme from A Few Good Men: “You can’t handle the truth!”
