Just over 60% of people are comfortable giving their bosses negative feedback, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query of more than 1,000 tech workers by Comparably.
By gender and department:
Overall, women are less comfortable giving their bosses negative feedback than men — 65% vs. 58%.
Women in executive roles, engineering, and customer support were the most comfortable with giving their boss negative feedback, while women in business development and legal were the least comfortable.
On the flipside, men in HR and customer support were the most comfortable with giving their boss negative feedback while men in legal were overwhelmingly the least comfortable. (Less than 40% of men and women in legal were comfortable giving their boss negative feedback.)
By age:
Sixty-six percent of workers aged 36 to 40 said they were comfortable giving feedback to the boss — the highest percentage of any age group. Workers younger and older than that were generally less comfortable, particularly those aged 18 to 25 and 41 to 45.
By education level:
Sixty-nine percent of employees with a high school education level said they were comfortable giving their boss feedback. The rate incrementally declined among those with a higher education, bottoming out at 55% among those with an Associate’s degree.
The latest reading is as of Aug. 4.
