Leaked Microsoft Polls Show Workers Feel Worse About Culture, Leaders
Microsoft workers feel worse about workplace culture and leader effectiveness, internal polls show.
The company measures sentiment with "Daily Signals" polls, and some results show falling morale.
Tensions have been high amid layoffs and paused pay raises. Angry workers recently roasted the CEO.
Microsoft employees feel significantly worse about the company's workplace culture and the effectiveness of leaders than they did at the start of the year, internal polls viewed by Insider show.
The company measures employee sentiment through polls called Daily Signals. Insider viewed screenshots of graphs of daily responses to each question since January. Microsoft provided monthly averages in response to a request for comment.
The percentage of employees who answered favorably to whether they're "seeing evidence of a positive change in Microsoft's workplace culture" fell to a monthly average of 40% in July, compared with 62% in January.
A poll asking whether employees had "confidence in the overall effectiveness of my organization's leaders" fell to an average of 59% in July from a monthly average of 75% in January.
And a poll about whether employees believed Microsoft had a growth mindset — meaning that employees have "a strong desire to learn, persist in the face of setbacks, value failure as essential to learning" — fell slightly to 76% in July from 84% in January.
Fewer than half of employees indicated they would stay at Microsoft if they were offered a comparable position with similar pay and benefits at another company, tracking with previous results for this question viewed by Insider last month. In July, 48% of employees who answered said they would stay at Microsoft, down from 68% in January.
Morale at Microsoft appears to be falling amid layoffs and the company's recent decision to halt raises this year and cut its budget for bonuses and stock awards.
Angry employees recently roasted Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella after he thanked the company's workforce for a "landmark" fiscal year.
"Here employees take pay cuts as our company and leadership make record profits," one employee wrote in response to Nadella. "It's not right, no other way to look at it."
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Source: Business Insider
