Are FormzoAI employee surveys really anonymous?

With anonymous mode on, FormzoAI stores no IP address, takes no name or email from the link, sends no continue-later email, and tells staff the survey is anonymous. The team or site comes from the link you send. Confidential results, shown only for groups of five or more with no per-person view, are coming at launch. You read themes, counts and quotes, with no names attached.

Does the AI judge or score individual employees?

Staff surveys come back as themes across the whole company or team, each with a count and quotes. Scoring is optional, so leave it off for staff surveys. The follow-up is one neutral question about the person's own answer, asked only when an answer is too vague to act on, and you can switch it off for any question.

Where is employee survey data stored, and is it used to train AI?

Answers are stored in the EU (Frankfurt) or the US (Ohio), set from where you sign up. Your company controls the answers and FormzoAI processes them under our data processing agreement. You set how long responses are kept. Neither FormzoAI nor its AI provider uses forms or answers to train AI models, and every service that processes answers is listed on our subprocessors page.

Do we need our works council to agree to the survey?

In Germany and several other EU countries, the works council has a say in staff surveys, so agree the survey with them before it goes out. FormzoAI gives you what they usually ask about: anonymous mode, storage in Frankfurt, a data processing agreement and a list of every service that touches the answers. A minimum group size of five is coming at launch.

How much does an employee engagement survey cost?

Joining the waitlist is free. A once-a-year engagement survey fits the Event Pass: $79 once for 60 days and 3,000 responses. For monthly pulses plus exit surveys, Pro is $49 a month ($39 a month billed yearly) for 3,000 responses a month, and Business is $149 a month with five seats for the people team. Every plan starts with a 7-day trial.

Do employees need an account to answer?

No. Staff open the link from Slack, Teams or email, or scan a QR code on the break room wall, and answer in the browser on their phone or laptop. They can type or speak, in their own language.

For HR and people teams

Find out what “communication could be better” really means.

Run your engagement, pulse and exit surveys as a short anonymous chat. When someone writes a vague answer, FormzoAI asks one follow-up. You read themes with counts and quotes, with no names attached.

Autumn engagement survey

Autumn engagement survey · made from “Anonymous autumn engagement survey for all 180 staff, team in the link, closing 15 November”

Their chat

What would make your job easier next quarter?

Communication could be better.

Follow-upCan you give one recent example of news that reached you late?

We heard about the new shift rota from the drivers, two days after it started.

What you get

Theme

Changes announced after they start

61 of 143 people said something like this

“We heard about the new shift rota from the drivers, two days after it started.”

Example answers, written for this page.

The week after the engagement survey closes.

“Communication could be better.”
Forty people wrote it. Nobody can tell you which communication, so the action plan says “improve communication” again and next year's survey says the same thing.
Nobody believes it's anonymous
In a finance team of four, “been here ten years, works part time” is a name. So people tick 4 out of 5 and leave the comment box empty.
Every leaver left for “a new opportunity”
People are polite on their last day. The real reason, the manager, the pay or the rota, walks out with them, and you hear it months later from someone who stayed.

From one sentence to an action plan.

01
Describe the survey in one sentence
“Anonymous autumn engagement survey for all 180 staff, team in the link, closing 15 November.” You get the questions, and you can reword any of them before it goes out.
02
Send each team its own link
Post it in Slack or Teams, email it, or pin a QR code in the warehouse break room. Each link carries the team, so nobody has to say where they sit. Staff answer on their phone with no account.
03
Read what each team said, by theme
Comments grouped into themes, each with how many people said it and the staff's own words. Folding teams with fewer than five answers into the company total is coming at launch. Take the quotes that make the case to your leadership meeting.

143 comments, three things to fix.

Comments are grouped into themes, each with how many people said it and the quote that says it best. Open a theme to read example comments, with no name on any of them. You decide what goes in the action plan.

Autumn engagement survey · comments

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Built for the comment box people usually leave empty.

Anonymous mode: No IP address is stored, no name or email comes from the link, and staff are told the survey is anonymous. Hiding the per-person view, so you only see what the team said together, is coming at launch.
Small teams stay hidden: Any team with fewer than five answers folds into the company total. Raise the minimum if your teams are small. Coming at launch.
Team and site in the link: Add ?team=warehouse or ?site=leeds to each link and every answer carries it, so you can compare teams without asking anyone where they work.
One follow-up on vague answers: When someone writes “management”, the chat asks one neutral question about their own answer. Switch follow-ups off for any question.
Exit surveys, read by theme: Send a short chat on someone's last day. Over a year, the reasons people leave add up to themes with counts.
Ask your responses: Type “What does the night shift say about pay?” and get an answer with the comments behind it.

Fair questions.

Are FormzoAI employee surveys really anonymous?: With anonymous mode on, FormzoAI stores no IP address, takes no name or email from the link, sends no continue-later email, and tells staff the survey is anonymous. The team or site comes from the link you send. Confidential results, shown only for groups of five or more with no per-person view, are coming at launch. You read themes, counts and quotes, with no names attached.
Does the AI judge or score individual employees?: Staff surveys come back as themes across the whole company or team, each with a count and quotes. Scoring is optional, so leave it off for staff surveys. The follow-up is one neutral question about the person's own answer, asked only when an answer is too vague to act on, and you can switch it off for any question.
Where is employee survey data stored, and is it used to train AI?: Answers are stored in the EU (Frankfurt) or the US (Ohio), set from where you sign up. Your company controls the answers and FormzoAI processes them under our data processing agreement. You set how long responses are kept. Neither FormzoAI nor its AI provider uses forms or answers to train AI models, and every service that processes answers is listed on our subprocessors page.
Do we need our works council to agree to the survey?: In Germany and several other EU countries, the works council has a say in staff surveys, so agree the survey with them before it goes out. FormzoAI gives you what they usually ask about: anonymous mode, storage in Frankfurt, a data processing agreement and a list of every service that touches the answers. A minimum group size of five is coming at launch.
How much does an employee engagement survey cost?: Joining the waitlist is free. A once-a-year engagement survey fits the Event Pass: $79 once for 60 days and 3,000 responses. For monthly pulses plus exit surveys, Pro is $49 a month ($39 a month billed yearly) for 3,000 responses a month, and Business is $149 a month with five seats for the people team. Every plan starts with a 7-day trial.
Do employees need an account to answer?: No. Staff open the link from Slack, Teams or email, or scan a QR code on the break room wall, and answer in the browser on their phone or laptop. They can type or speak, in their own language.

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Find out what “communication could be better” really means.

Run your engagement, pulse and exit surveys as a short anonymous chat. When someone writes a vague answer, FormzoAI asks one follow-up. You read themes with counts and quotes, with no names attached.

Autumn engagement survey

Autumn engagement survey · made from “Anonymous autumn engagement survey for all 180 staff, team in the link, closing 15 November”

Their chat

What would make your job easier next quarter?

Communication could be better.

Follow-upCan you give one recent example of news that reached you late?

We heard about the new shift rota from the drivers, two days after it started.

What you get

Theme

Changes announced after they start

61 of 143 people said something like this

“We heard about the new shift rota from the drivers, two days after it started.”

Example answers, written for this page.

The week after the engagement survey closes.

“Communication could be better.”

Forty people wrote it. Nobody can tell you which communication, so the action plan says “improve communication” again and next year's survey says the same thing.

Nobody believes it's anonymous

In a finance team of four, “been here ten years, works part time” is a name. So people tick 4 out of 5 and leave the comment box empty.

Every leaver left for “a new opportunity”

People are polite on their last day. The real reason, the manager, the pay or the rota, walks out with them, and you hear it months later from someone who stayed.

From one sentence to an action plan.

Describe the survey in one sentence

“Anonymous autumn engagement survey for all 180 staff, team in the link, closing 15 November.” You get the questions, and you can reword any of them before it goes out.

Send each team its own link

Post it in Slack or Teams, email it, or pin a QR code in the warehouse break room. Each link carries the team, so nobody has to say where they sit. Staff answer on their phone with no account.

Read what each team said, by theme

Comments grouped into themes, each with how many people said it and the staff's own words. Folding teams with fewer than five answers into the company total is coming at launch. Take the quotes that make the case to your leadership meeting.

Built for the comment box people usually leave empty.

Anonymous mode

No IP address is stored, no name or email comes from the link, and staff are told the survey is anonymous. Hiding the per-person view, so you only see what the team said together, is coming at launch.

Small teams stay hidden

Any team with fewer than five answers folds into the company total. Raise the minimum if your teams are small. Coming at launch.

Team and site in the link

Add ?team=warehouse or ?site=leeds to each link and every answer carries it, so you can compare teams without asking anyone where they work.

One follow-up on vague answers

When someone writes “management”, the chat asks one neutral question about their own answer. Switch follow-ups off for any question.

Exit surveys, read by theme

Send a short chat on someone's last day. Over a year, the reasons people leave add up to themes with counts.

Ask your responses

Type “What does the night shift say about pay?” and get an answer with the comments behind it.

Fair questions.

Are FormzoAI employee surveys really anonymous?: With anonymous mode on, FormzoAI stores no IP address, takes no name or email from the link, sends no continue-later email, and tells staff the survey is anonymous. The team or site comes from the link you send. Confidential results, shown only for groups of five or more with no per-person view, are coming at launch. You read themes, counts and quotes, with no names attached.
Does the AI judge or score individual employees?: Staff surveys come back as themes across the whole company or team, each with a count and quotes. Scoring is optional, so leave it off for staff surveys. The follow-up is one neutral question about the person's own answer, asked only when an answer is too vague to act on, and you can switch it off for any question.
Where is employee survey data stored, and is it used to train AI?: Answers are stored in the EU (Frankfurt) or the US (Ohio), set from where you sign up. Your company controls the answers and FormzoAI processes them under our data processing agreement. You set how long responses are kept. Neither FormzoAI nor its AI provider uses forms or answers to train AI models, and every service that processes answers is listed on our subprocessors page.
Do we need our works council to agree to the survey?: In Germany and several other EU countries, the works council has a say in staff surveys, so agree the survey with them before it goes out. FormzoAI gives you what they usually ask about: anonymous mode, storage in Frankfurt, a data processing agreement and a list of every service that touches the answers. A minimum group size of five is coming at launch.
How much does an employee engagement survey cost?: Joining the waitlist is free. A once-a-year engagement survey fits the Event Pass: $79 once for 60 days and 3,000 responses. For monthly pulses plus exit surveys, Pro is $49 a month ($39 a month billed yearly) for 3,000 responses a month, and Business is $149 a month with five seats for the people team. Every plan starts with a 7-day trial.
Do employees need an account to answer?: No. Staff open the link from Slack, Teams or email, or scan a QR code on the break room wall, and answer in the browser on their phone or laptop. They can type or speak, in their own language.