> Considering it was anonymous

In the recent past, my department received an email from on high with a list of people who were yet to complete the "anonymous" survey.

I always assume my work-survey answers are traceable back to me, whether it's via self-doxxing with my answers, tracing links of the rootkit-level MDM software that can record my screen, but they pinky-promise to only use for remote assistance, in case I open a ticket with IT.

You do know it is possible for the answers to be anonymous but who submitted to be tracked?

Depends on how it's done.

Trusting that process to be done well is probably not the greatest plan.

This guy is wrong.