Enabling anonymous feedback in Teamflect allows employees to share feedback without revealing their identity to the feedback recipient. This can encourage more candid responses, support psychological safety, and help organizations gather honest perspectives.
In this guide, you'll learn how to enable anonymous feedback in the Admin Center, understand what changes when the setting is enabled or disabled, and distinguish anonymous Instant Feedback from the anonymity settings available in 360-degree feedback templates.
How to Enable Anonymous Feedback
Follow these steps to enable anonymous feedback for your organization.
Step 1: Access the Admin Center
Go to https://admin.teamflect.com to access the Admin Center.
Step 2: Navigate to the Feedback module
In the Admin Center sidebar, find and click on the Feedback module section.
Step 3: Locate the anonymous feedback setting
Within the Feedback settings, look for the option labeled Allow anonymous feedback.
Step 4: Enable anonymous feedback
Toggle the setting to ON. Once enabled, employees can submit feedback without their names being visible to the feedback recipient. The option Visible to receiver anonymously becomes available when submitting feedback.
What Changes When Anonymous Feedback Is Enabled or Disabled?
The Allow anonymous feedback setting determines whether employees can choose to submit feedback anonymously to the recipient.
Setting | When Enabled (ON) | When Disabled (OFF) |
Anonymous feedback option | The Visible to receiver anonymously option becomes available when submitting feedback. | The Visible to receiver anonymously option is removed. |
Feedback recipient | When anonymous submission is selected, the recipient cannot see the feedback provider's identity. | Feedback providers cannot select the anonymous submission option, so their identity is not hidden through this feature. |
Feedback provider | Can choose to submit feedback anonymously to the recipient when the option is available. | Cannot choose anonymous submission through this setting. |
Managers and admins | Enabling this setting alone does not automatically hide the feedback provider's identity from managers and admins. | This setting does not provide anonymous submission to the recipient. Other applicable visibility permissions may still determine who can access feedback and provider identities. |
Additional Privacy Protections
Teamflect includes additional protections when anonymous feedback is enabled to make it more difficult to identify individual feedback providers.
Anonymous Feedback Is Not Displayed in Submission Order
When there is more than one anonymous feedback response, Teamflect does not preserve the original submission order when displaying the responses. The responses are presented in a different order to help prevent users from guessing who submitted a particular response based on when the feedback was provided.
Anonymous Comments Are Summarized
For anonymous feedback that contains open-text comments, Teamflect can provide an anonymous comment summary instead of displaying each individual anonymous comment separately.
This provides useful feedback while adding another layer of privacy protection for feedback providers.
Who Can See Anonymous Feedback?
Anonymous feedback hides the feedback provider's identity from the feedback recipient.
Depending on the configured visibility settings, authorized administrators and managers may still be able to access the feedback results.
For example, if anonymous feedback is configured for a reviewee, the reviewee will see the feedback without seeing the names of the people who provided it.
If your organization also wants to prevent administrators and managers from identifying feedback providers, make sure the relevant anonymity and visibility options are configured accordingly.
Anonymous Feedback for Managers
If feedback is collected about a manager, anonymous feedback can allow their direct reports to provide input without revealing their identities.
Make sure the relevant visibility settings are configured so that feedback remains anonymous to the intended recipient.
Additional Feedback Visibility Options
If you want to prevent feedback results from being visible before the feedback cycle has ended, you can enable the option to keep results hidden until the cycle ends.
This is an optional template setting. When enabled, the results page remains hidden until the feedback due date has passed.
Users who try to access the results before the cycle has ended will see a message indicating that the results are not yet available.
This setting can be used together with anonymous feedback to provide additional privacy during the feedback collection period.
Additionally, when Feedback providers are anonymous, results are visible is selected and the option to Make providers anonymous to managers & admins is enabled, managers and admins will see a privacy notice when viewing feedback given by a user or their direct reports.
The notice indicates that not all feedback may be visible due to privacy settings, helping clarify why certain feedback may not appear.
Use Cases for Anonymous Feedback
Encourage Honest Upward Feedback
Allow employees to share perspectives about their managers' communication, leadership, and support without revealing their identities to the recipient.
Support Employee Listening Initiatives
Collect candid input about workplace culture, employee experience, and organizational changes.
Improve Psychological Safety
Give employees an option to share sensitive feedback without their names being shown to the recipient, helping encourage open communication.
Best Practices for Admins
Explain how anonymity works. Make sure employees understand who can and cannot see their identity.
Review visibility permissions. Anonymous submission to a recipient does not necessarily hide the provider's identity from managers or admins.
Configure 360-degree feedback separately. Review the visibility settings and the Make providers anonymous to managers & admins option when setting up a 360-degree feedback template.
Set expectations for written responses. Remind employees that comments containing identifying details may reveal their identity, even when anonymous feedback is enabled.
Final Thoughts
Enabling anonymous feedback in Teamflect creates space for honest conversations and uncovers valuable insights that might otherwise go unspoken. As an admin, activating this feature helps support open communication, increased engagement, and a healthier feedback culture across your organization.