I have been getting a lot of questions about Glassdoor, a website where you can search for a company and find all of the essential information about it without having to talk to someone from the company in person. When searching a company on Glassdoor you can find salary information, details about the corporate culture, how employees feel about working there, and much more. […]
Glassdoor is a career website that is like a TripAdvisor or Yelp for organizations. All you have to do is search for the name of almost any company and it will reveal a wealth of information like employee salaries and reviews, pictures of offices, CEO approval ratings, and even benefit details. So nearly anything you would want to know about an organization can be seen, for free! The information on Glassdoor is shared by employees about the organization where they work. This exceptional amount of transparency is great if you have a wonderful place to work. However, if you have unethical practices and don’t treat your employees well that will also be uncovered! […]
When looking at something such as designing employee experiences one of the biggest questions and challenges that comes up is
Transparency is a simple word with a complex meaning. Companies like Buffer for example are completely transparent with salaries. Employees can see the pay scale for each position internally and in fact, even if you don’t work for the company you can see how much money everyone there makes. Many employees are looking to their leaders to be transparent with information and with the internal workings of their companies. However, perhaps there is such as thing as being too transparent! […]
HR is at a complete turning point! It is the most ripe for disruption and change. The entire role is changing into a department that engages employees and creates and environment where employees want to show up, not where they just need to show up. […]
In episode 2 of The Future of Work Show, I go inside the offices of Glassdoor, which is a site and community dedicated to career transparency. They have the famous “best place to work” list and visitors to the site can see all sorts of fascinating information about almost any company including average salaries, if employees like the CEO, what the corporate culture is like, and much more. I figured if Glassdoor is offering all of this information about other companies then surely they must be a best place to work, too, right? […]