I agree, the surveys are super flawed and are typically a form of performative art.

But your outcome is super flawed too.

Employees who won’t give honest feedback in an anonymous third party survey aren’t going to start giving honest feedback in a face-to-face meeting with an executive. Especially one they don’t have an existing relationship with.

Few managers will have a relationship with even a *chance* of honest feedback with more than a dozen, perhaps two dozen employees. The people who are capable of driving organization-wide change in any company larger than probably 50, maybe 100 employees, needs some way to quantify the feedback because they can’t get it face-to-face or even get face-to-face with the people who get face-to-face with the workers.

J.Ja