Subject: pulse survey memo from the office of the chairman
in october of this year , we asked you to participate in the  & pulse  8 survey .
over 70 % of you were willing to take the time to respond . thank you ! this
is our highest response to an all enron employee survey - ever .
in exchange for your candid feedback , we want to provide you with an overview
of the results for our company .
we realize that you and your management have been working hard to build on
our strengths and improve in areas of concern for us . the results reflect
your substantial efforts .
as you can see from the chart below , thanks to the increased focus on these
issues provided by the vision & values task force and your efforts to improve
communications , we have made significant progress .
question 1999 % positive 2000 % positive
employees are encouraged to challenge the status quo 42 % 47 %
decisions are communicated well 41 % 50 %
employees feel free to voice opinions openly 46 % 55 %
enron does a good job of acting on suggestions of employees 45 % 52 %
communication across departmental lines is good 30 % 34 %
congratulations on your fine efforts . improvements in communications across
the company should enable better performance from all of us . however , as you
know , our goal is to have 60 % positive in most of these areas by 2001 . so
our work is not over and these will continue to be areas of attention .
( complete survey results are attached for your review . )
we are also pleased to report that employees across enron expressed
satisfaction in the following areas :
employee benefits  ) 82 %
supervisors / managers deal fairly with people  ) 76 %
supervisors / managers encourage teamwork  ) 73 %
people are treated with respect and dignity  ) 73 %
information from top management is credible  ) 74 %
people would recommend enron as a good place to work  ) 72 %
the workload is reasonable  ) 67 %
people are committed to enron as more than just a place to work  ) 65 %
all of these areas improved between one and five percentage points since the
previous survey . in fact , we improved in almost every area measured by the
core survey questions .
click on the url below to view the three pages of survey results .
