Execs and Entry-Level Employees Get More Valuable Feedback Then Anyone Else
Those at the top and bottom of the office ecosystem report receiving more practical and helpful advice regarding improving their work performance than the majority of workers currently between those two extremes.
When asked how often they felt they received constructive feedback, the most common response overall from all employees was once a quarter (22%), according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably.
This data may imply that most employees feel that all such comments are reserved for set quarterly meetings with their supervisor, and do not occur as spontaneously as they might.
Those with the least experience and those with the most power seem to be outliers.
Among departments surveyed, the executives attested to a far higher incident of helpful feedback, with 34% reporting it happened at least once a week. Sales (28%) and HR (29%) were the only other departments who came close to reporting that level of valuable feedback, with legal bringing up the rear at 14%.
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34% of entry-level employees also attested to getting helpful feedback once a week, with that number dropping consistently until arriving at the 17% reported by employees more than 10 years into their career.
Among ethnicities, African-Americans reported getting helpful feedback most often by a surprisingly large margin.
While other ethnicities responded in line with the overall survey results, and reported good feedback coming down about once a quarter, African-Americans reported a far higher incident of feedback, with 25% of those respondents saying they got helpful criticism every week. That’s nearly 5% higher than any other ethnic group reporting.
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The latest reading is as of December 10.
