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Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by purrtastic@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] JoBo@feddit.uk 365 points 8 months ago (5 children)

That's a fantastically efficient way to destroy their business. There's no way to get honest reviews of employers from employees who know their identities will be exposed whether they consent or not. Doesn't even matter if the review is after leaving that job, future employers can go nosing too.

Absolute techbro-brane gold.

[–] Sylver@lemmy.world 183 points 8 months ago (4 children)

This is what happens right before the major money holders abandon ship. There’s no way they don’t know this is business-suicide. I bet they got a big payday from some companies that paid Glassdoor to shoot itself in the face!

[–] _sideffect@lemmy.world 52 points 8 months ago

Yep, we've seen this happen over and over before

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 40 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Imagine if a fediverse version of Glassdoor would appear after this

[–] halva@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 8 months ago

i don't really see a point in federating employment reviews, but there certainly needs to be a non profit providing such a service

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Maybe a start would be a forum for employer reviews

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

I'm normally not a conspiracy dude, but this just fucking SCREAMS sabotage to me.

[–] Wooki@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

This screams liability and damages avoidance to me.

[–] Igloojoe@lemm.ee 31 points 8 months ago

Good way to get yourself blackballed from the industry if you give a bad complaint from previous employer.

[–] Kushan@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago

A former employer actually did send lawyers after me for a bad Glassdoor review. The dumb thing is that it wasn't even my review.

This is beyond stupid.

[–] Wooki@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Welcome to the point of the change. Kill off the liabilty & associated damages.

Doesnt matter if the facts are true. In fact it matters more if they are!

[–] arc@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

I expect their logic is their review "curation" racket is a sideshow and the real money is selling information to agencies and sales companies.