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Anonymity in 360° Feedback is configured per perspective — Self, Manager, Peers, Direct Reports — and separately for free-text responses. This way you can show manager feedback very early (often just one reviewer is available) while still protecting peer and report feedback behind higher thresholds. You configure anonymity in the Anonymity tab when creating or editing a run.
  • Anonymity can only be changed while the run is in Draft status.
  • Self-assessment is always shown (threshold fixed at 1).
  • Anonymity values set per run override the account-wide survey anonymity threshold for that run only.

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How thresholds work

For each perspective you set a minimum number of responses that must be received before results in that perspective become visible in the dashboard.
  • If a recipient does not yet have enough responses in a perspective, no numerical value for that perspective is shown for that recipient.
  • As soon as the threshold is reached, results become visible automatically.
  • The threshold applies per recipient , per perspective and per question — not to the run as a whole.
For each question, Honestly counts the reviewers who answered that particular question. Someone who skips a question does not count towards it. If that leaves a question in a perspective with fewer responses than the threshold, the question is not evaluated for that perspective. The perspective’s other questions are unaffected. For how this plays out in the Competency Matrix, see How are 360° feedback scores calculated? Example:

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Step 1: Set the anonymity threshold per perspective

In the Anonymity tab, for each active perspective:
  1. Choose the minimum number of responses required. Options available in the
dropdown depend on the thresholds configured for your account in Settings.
  1. A hint tells you if any recipient in the run has fewer raters in that
perspective than the threshold requires — in that case, results for that recipient will remain hidden for that perspective until more reviewers submit. If a perspective has no reviewers assigned for a recipient at all, the dashboard will permanently show no result for that recipient in that perspective. Add reviewers in the Reviewers tab to fix this.

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Step 2: Set the text anonymity threshold

Free-text responses (from Open Questions) have their own threshold, configured under Text Anonymity. It works the same way but can be set lower than the perspective threshold so that qualitative feedback appears earlier. Example: perspective threshold of 3 and a text threshold of 2 — as soon as 2 peers have answered an open question, those two text answers become visible, even though the quantitative chart for peers is still hidden. This is useful because text feedback often provides the most actionable insight, and waiting for a higher threshold can delay learning.

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Self-assessment is always shown

Self-assessment has a fixed threshold of 1 : as soon as the recipient has completed their self-assessment, those results are visible to them on their dashboard. This cannot be changed.

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Tips

  • Put questions that only one perspective can answer into a dimension of their own and leave Required off for them. Other reviewers can then skip them instead of guessing. Because skipped answers do not count towards the threshold, such a question will often miss the threshold in the other perspectives — in a dimension of its own, that does not affect your other dimensions. Leaving it without a dimension is not an option: every Scale Question has to be assigned a dimension, or the run cannot be started.
  • Start with higher thresholds for Peers and Reports. These perspectives typically have enough reviewers per recipient and benefit from stronger anonymity protection.
  • Use lower text anonymity to surface qualitative insight earlier , but always coordinate the threshold with your works council / data protection policy.
  • Check the reviewer counts in the Reviewers tab before you finalise anonymity — if only two peers are assigned, a threshold of three will prevent that recipient from ever seeing peer results.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.