Anonymity and Confidentiality in 360

360 feedback only works when raters trust that their input is confidential. Compass is built to protect that trust: individual responses are never shown to anyone, reports never attribute feedback to a named person, and results are held back whenever a rater group is too small to stay anonymous.

Your individual responses are never shown

• No one: not your organization's administrators and not the person being rated; can see how any individual rater answered.

• Feedback is always combined by rater group (manager, peers, direct reports, and others). Reports show group results, never who said what.

• Written comments are grouped by theme and labelled by rater group only, never by name.

Small groups are protected

Feedback from a rater group only appears once enough people in that group have responded. This minimum (typically three responses) applies separately to scores and to comments. If a group is smaller than the minimum, its results are hidden from the report (the scores are removed and the comments are suppressed) so that no one can be identified.

A self-assessment appears once the ratee has completed their own responses.

Reports are held back until they are safe to release

A report is not released while any rater group is still below the minimum. This is deliberate and cannot be overridden. If more people in that group complete their assessment, the group's feedback can then be included and the report released.

Some competencies may not appear in your report

A 360 program may collect feedback on certain competencies for development purposes without showing them in the report. Any competency set up this way is left out of every version of the report; the on-screen view, the PDF, the data export, and any copy shared with a manager.