Working from home survey starts this week

As was previously announced, the Membership Engagement Committee (MEC) will be conducting a short telephone survey of 100 members (about 25% of AUFA) starting late this week. This survey seeks to document and understand the challenges faced by AUFA members’ with working from home.

This telephone survey will take about 15 minutes and includes three sets of questions. We will be repeating three of the climate questions we piloted in November. These questions are designed to take the temperature of the membership. We will also be asking two questions about the employer’s proposal to carve 67% of AUFA members out of the bargaining unit.

The majority of the questions will focus on our experiences of working from home and identifying what supports are necessary for AUFA members to be successful working at home. These questions are a mixture of yes/no questions and open-ended responses. Their development was informed by the many helpful responses MEC received to last week’s blog asking for feedback.

The survey will once again be administered by a group of volunteer callers drawn from the AUFA membership. We hope you will feel safe to speak frankly and honestly. We’re taking all the measures we can to protect your privacy and confidentiality.

Responses from the survey are confidential and will only be sent to the Membership Engagement Committee. The data from the surveys will be held by the AUFA Office.

The aggregated numerical responses will shared with the AUFA membership in early May. Summarized comments will be shared to prevent identifying individual AUFA members.

The Membership Engagement Committee wishes to thank the many volunteer callers who will be helping us conduct these surveys. When your name is randomly drawn to participate, we ask that you assist the caller who reaches out to you in finding a mutually agreeable time to conduct the call. As an AUFA member, your voice matters.

If you have any questions about the survey or wish to share some thoughts about bargaining, the employer, or anything else, contact us at engagement@aufa.ca.

Rhiannon Rutherford

Chair, Membership Engagement Committee