Tips for Worker's Council meetings

If your country or company requires employee representatives such as Worker's councils to approve use of employee surveys, check these tips.

In most cases, these stakeholders just want to ensure employee rights are not violated and their data is used in a responsible way. Here are the most commonly occurring topics and some answers to them.

Purpose

A comprehensive list of purpose description per solution can be found in this article:

📄 GDPR Compliance of Teamspective Solutions

Communicating a clear purpose for using Teamspective helps set the context, increase. mutual understanding and help in gaining support for your initiatives.

What is measured or tracked?

Chapter 3, Data Minimization of this article describes the overall type of data measured with Teamspective:📄 GDPR Compliance of Teamspective Solutions

With Engagement solution

Teamspective offers a library of questions that can be used. These questions are actively used by companies across 100+ countries in Europe, North America and elsewhere.

List of Teamspective questions are available for admin users in the web app. You can also view the full list and default questions in this file. In addition to the question library, it is possible to create custom questions tailored for your company.

With Performance solution

Depending on your intended use cases for Teamspective, the solutions are used to collect feedback or evaluations on employees. That feedback is usually focused on their performance, skills, collaboration, key strengths and development areas.

With Collaboration solution

Measurement is focused on understanding how actively individuals (and groups) communicate and work together. That information is used for understanding organizational information flow and collaboration patterns, employee roles, opportunities and bottlenecks to address.

Are surveys anonymous? How is that ensured?

With Engagement solution

Nobody in your organization has access to the individual raw answers to the surveys.

Only way to access the results are via the reports and summaries in Teamspective. Those reports always report results that are aggregated to group level. Open comments are linked to individual users, but the name of the person is never visible in the reports.

See more about anonymity in here:

📄 Why is anonymity important in engagement surveys?

With Performance solution

Your organization's admin users can control the level of anonymity. Options include:

• All feedback is identifiable

• Admins, managers and other permission holders can identify feedback provider

• Only admins can identify feedback provider

• All feedback is anonymous

With Collaboration solution

Data minimization principles are used. Certain analyses can be done or reported on aggregated level, while other insights are only possible to analyze and take action on based on person-level information. If you're unsure of the scope, reach out to Teamspective for answers.

Is Teamspective GDPR compliant?

Yes, Teamspective has a large number of customers in various EU countries and is fully GDPR compliant. If your organization wants to do a more detailed review, most questions are answered by the materials at https://trust.teamspective.com/