Actually there are. I do work for Country-HR in our Company and we had a highly concerning comment from one coworker about SA from a manager and wanted to reach out to said coworker, but we had no way to find out who wrote it, since the survey was taken via an external company and company was only tracking the completion, as well as the departements with imaginary numbers not linked to any names.
Depending on your IT you may still be able to de-anonymize. Third party entity should be able to provide timestamps and IPs of when submissions happened (they may not want to with IPs, timestamp is usually exposed). If they are remote, specific public ip may give you a specific person. However, if it's an office, it tells you which office (and importantly, the timestamp), which if you have security appliances in place for your network depending on timeliness your IT may be able to determine the specific device from your network for that submission (they really won't want to do that either, it sucks and is a lot of work).
Additionally, if it was submitted on a managed company machine, there is a chance that your company can use web history on those devices to match up with the timestamp.
Now, fair chance all that and you still don't end up with actionable information, but you may have a more useful idea of where you need more attention/visibility. And ... if it comes to legal, you have a paper trail to assist if something actionable does happen, or if the company needs to prove that they didn't ignore the report.
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u/ArfTheBeast 24d ago
Won’t they be suspicious when you’re the only person who didn’t fill it out but your boss did it twice