Improving The Workplace Culture By Rating Your Boss

At moments, this long-read might sound like an article paid to highlight the greatness of Glassdoor, but at the same time it points out interesting issues regarding corporate power dynamics and transparency in the workplace.

Glassdoor is well known for being a 'Yelp' of office environments. On this site, anybody can find salary information about thousands of companies across the world, as well as reviews about the work environment and CEOs.

If you are paying fairly, you have nothing to hide

The idea behind the page was to make information about salaries accessible to job seekers, but it could become much more.

It is also an example of how a good communication strategy plays a huge part in how the employees perceive a company, even at its lowest. As an example, what happened when Caterpillar laid off thousands of people and, in return, its reviews went up.

"[T]hey did such a good job communicating—the communication was just so crisp" – Robert Hohman, Glassdoor's CEO

What can Glassdoor add to the #MeToo movement?

In this piece for The New Yorker, Lizzie Widdicombe speaks to different sources who also highlight the significant role that a platform such as Glassdoor could play in cases of sexual harassment or sexual assault, for example.

In those cases (and many others), whistle-blowing is the only alternative, and Glassdoor is in part the space for it.

That, of course, if the "Glassdoor conspiracy theories" aren't true. According to Widdicombe, some reviews are deleted, while some other (positive) comments are pushed to the top of the page. Glassdoor has denied the accusations.