The report is short, boring, and carefully stripped of everything that would make it more interesting, because every one of those things is a way of identifying somebody. What is left is still enough to change how a business runs.
Key takeaways
Counts and directions only. No quotes, ever, however anonymised they look.
No department, role or manager breakdown. In a small business those are names.
A coverage line at the top, so the report is not read as more than it is.
Quarterly, not live. A dashboard updating after one response is a name with a delay.
The unmatched count is reported, because it says the theme list is out of date.
What the page says
Q3 2026 — leavers
Coverage. 7 leavers. 5 answered at exit, 4 answered at six weeks, 3 answered both.
Scheduling — 4 people, rising. Up from 1 last quarter. Two said they raised it while employed.
Progression — 3 people, flat. Same as the last two quarters.
A better offer — 5 at exit, 2 at six weeks. The gap is the largest recorded so far.
Unmatched — 3 answers. Above the usual 1. Worth a read of the theme list.
No individual response is shown. Themes need three people before they appear.
Five lines and a footer. The coverage line is first because it determines how much weight the rest deserves: three people answering both asks out of seven leavers is a real signal and a small one, and putting that at the top stops the report being quoted in a board meeting as though it were a survey.
Everything it refuses to include
Fig 1. The four additions that get requested and are refused. None of them is unreasonable and all four defeat the property the whole system depends on.
App integration
Security & identity
Analytics
Front-end & mobile
Why a quote is worse than a name
A quote is presented as the safe compromise: no name attached, just what somebody actually said. In a business of thirty people, a sentence about a specific incident, in somebody’s own phrasing, identifies them more reliably than a name would — because everybody knows who was involved, and now they also know what that person said about it. There is no way to anonymise a quote that survives contact with colleagues.
Why the manager breakdown is the one people ask for
And it is the one that must never exist, for a reason that has nothing to do with protecting managers. The moment a report can show what a manager’s leavers said, everybody in the business understands that answering honestly is an accusation against a named person. Answers become diplomatic within one quarter and the system produces nothing useful ever again.
The thing to do with a scheduling theme is fix the scheduling. If the fix requires knowing where, that is a conversation somebody has with people who still work there, which is a better conversation anyway.
Why quarterly
Fig 2. Why the report is quarterly rather than live. A count that moves the week somebody left is attributable by anyone who noticed they left.
Machine learning
Management
Analytics
People
A quarter is late enough that several responses are pooled and early enough that a rising theme can still be acted on within the same year. It is not a compromise on speed so much as a recognition that this data is about patterns, and a pattern that is only visible within a week is not a pattern.