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Office experience survey

This survey helps test whether a transparency platform for legislative offices would be useful and trustworthy. It takes about 5 minutes.

Please answer honestly — your input directly shapes whether and how this gets built.
🔒 Your privacy in this survey

This survey does not collect your name, email address, or IP address. Your response cannot be traced back to you.

Please follow these guidelines to protect yourself and others:
- Do not write the name of the official, office, state, or district anywhere in your answers
- Refer to your former employer only as "the office" in any written responses
- Avoid specific dates, named events, or details that could identify your former workplace
- If any question feels too risky to answer honestly, skip it — that itself is useful feedback

Section 1 of 3 — About your experience

Which best describes the office where you worked as a public servant staffer?

Broad categories only — please do not specify the chamber, state, or member's name.

What was your general seniority level in the office?

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How long ago did this experience take place?

This helps us understand whether experiences differ across time periods, without pinpointing exact dates.
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Section 2 of 3 — Rate the office

Rate each category from 1 (very poor) to 5 (excellent). If you genuinely cannot rate a category, leave it blank.

Staff respect & treatment

1: "Very poor" 5: "Excellent"
How were you and your colleagues treated day-to-day, especially away from public view? Was the member's private behavior consistent with their public persona?

Compensation fairness

Were salaries fair and equitable across roles, tenure, and seniority? Did pay reflect the actual demands of the job?

Work-life balance

Were hours and after-hours expectations reasonable? Were demands predictable, or did they feel erratic and unmanageable?

Leadership & communication

Did leadership communicate clearly and follow through? Was the member's private behavior consistent with how they presented publicly?

Career growth & development

Were there real opportunities to develop skills, take on responsibility, and advance your career?

Office culture & inclusion

Was the environment welcoming, equitable, and respectful across different backgrounds and roles?

Would you work in this office again?

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Optional: anything else about your experience?

This is optional but valuable. Please avoid names, exact dates, or specific events that could identify the office or yourself. Describe patterns instead — e.g. "leadership often..." rather than naming a specific incident or person. The more honest and specific (without identifying details), the more useful this is.

Section 3 of 3 — About this survey

These last questions help improve the survey itself. They take about 60 seconds.

Did any question feel too risky to answer honestly, even knowing this survey is anonymous?

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If yes — which question, and what made it feel risky?

You don't have to be specific. Even "the written review section felt too open-ended" is useful.

Is there a category or question you think is missing entirely?

Optional — a short answer is fine. What would you want future staffers to know that isn't captured above?

Would you trust a platform like this enough to leave a review on a real, public version?

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Thank you for taking the time to fill this out. Your response is anonymous and cannot be traced back to you.

This survey is part of the early research phase for a transparency platform for legislative offices. Your honest input — including any skepticism — is exactly what's needed to build something trustworthy.

Are you using any platform right now to share office experience

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If yes, which one?