Survey Confidentiality

Great Place to Work® is an independent research and consulting firm located in Toronto, Ontario. We work with companies of all different sizes & industries to help them assess their workplace culture and develop the vision, strategy and practices that will make their companies great places to work.

We are committed to protecting the confidentiality of each individual respondent. At no time will any employee’s individual demographic profile be linked with their specific set of individual responses. Our ability to provide senior management with recommendations for developing and enhancing the level of trust within your organization is dependent on our receipt of open and honest responses from employees. Therefore, your comfort with the confidentiality of the data you provide is of the utmost importance to us.

How We Protect Your Identity

1. No one at your company ever sees your survey. All surveys go directly to the Great Place to Work® Canada. No one at your company ever sees individual surveys once you have completed them. Online surveys are sent directly to us.

2. The raw data from your surveys stays with Great Place to Work®. We collect and store all data we receive in a secure server. You are not asked to put any personal identification information on the survey.

3. Data is only reported for demographic groups containing 5 or more responses. If there are fewer than 5 respondents in a single category, we will either combine data into a larger demographic group or will not report the data as a separate category. For example, if there are four responses for the demographic option indicating that a person has worked for the company for >20 years, we will not report that data by itself. We would merge that data into the next reasonable tenure option (say the 16-20 years category) or include it in the total for the organization if there is no other category to merge it into.

4. Written comments are not linked to any demographic data. Responses to the two open-ended questions will be typed up and shared with the organization but will not be linked to any personal information that could identify you as the respondent. Positive comments may be selected for illustrative use but, again, will never be associated with any individual.