My Boss Wants Me to Write My Own Review

Tin your boss force you to write a Glassdoor review?

June 24, 2013 / 7:54 AM / MoneyWatch

(MoneyWatch) Beloved Evil HR Lady,

My company's reviews on Glassdoor are very negative but provide a truthful evaluation of the company, visitor management and visitor'southward culture. Now the president is demanding current employees go establish/write positive reviews to outweigh the bad ones. Do I have to exercise this?

Wow. I bet the company president is the same kind of guy who hires a consultant to tell him what's wrong with his visitor then ignores everything the consultant says because the problems are at the top. And and so he would probably hire yet some other consultant and some other until one finally clued and told the guy what he wanted to hear.

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Now, with all the standard disclaimers about how I'm not a lawyer, I don't requite out legal communication and I stopped watching Constabulary & Order when Jerry Orbach died anyway, my all-time guess is yes. Your dominate can make information technology a requirement that you write positive things almost the company. Notwithstanding, I did speak with Lisa Holden, Employee Engagement Manager at Glassdoor almost your dilemma. She said:

Thank you for bringing this to us, nosotros really appreciate the opportunity to respond. Glassdoor takes it data integrity seriously and looks to provide an honest, authentic and balanced look at what it's like to piece of work at particular companies. Anyone can invite others to share an anonymous review withal every review on Glassdoor must encounter our community guidelines earlier it gets published -- for example, all reviews crave both pros and cons. Approximately xv% of reviews submitted to Glassdoor are rejected as they do non encounter community guidelines.

Also worth noting is that anyone can encourage employees to share reviews, but they are not allowed to offer incentives or other perks in substitution for reviews. If someone has offered an incentive for a review, delight tell us about it.

In other words, regardless of the legalities of this, it violates Glassdoor policies and a quick email to Glassdoor should put them on the await out for imitation reviews. Their business organization functions simply when they tin provide good information, so they are highly motivated to go along the reviews honest.

Simply your bug are bigger than fake Glassdoor reviews. Your company possessor is in consummate denial about his own ineffectiveness. Now, depending on who you lot are, your response should exist different. If you are an entry level guy, send an email to Glassdoor on your abode business relationship warning them about the requirement from the boss to write this, write a sappy review which will get rejected anyway for non having whatever cons, and get your resume spiffed upwardly to wait for a new task. (Because it'southward easier to observe a new job than it is to get bad senior direction to modify.)

Just, if you're someone who reports into the visitor president, it'south fourth dimension for a confront to face chat almost how faking the company reviews doesn't solve the problems and, in fact, information technology would be amend to take a look at the reviews and piece of work to ready the problems that employees have laid out. Because when yous fix the underlying issues, your Glassdoor reviews will change all on their own.

The reality is, some bosses just do not want to hear existent feedback. Oh, they say they do, but they are lying, because all they want to do is hear things that are sunshine and roses. These are people I have low expectations for -- because nosotros cannot get amend if nosotros don't know where our faults are.

If yous have one employee complaining about X, Y, and Z, you can pretty well dismiss them as being a whiner. But when multiple people are lament and people are talking anonymously online nigh the internal problems, you can exist pretty darn sure that the issues they speak of are real. At present, it could well be a misunderstanding of what is going on, but fifty-fifty that ways that your communication skills stink.

If the company president tin't be convinced that this is not the way to plough his company around, you can express mirth nigh the ridiculous nature of it with your friends, but proceed your resume prepare and network like crazy because if you don't leave voluntarily, you'll be in danger of a layoff due to poor visitor performance.

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Suzanne Lucas

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Suzanne Lucas spent x years in corporate homo resources, where she hired, fired, managed the numbers and double-checked with the lawyers. Connect with her at LinkedIn, read her web log or send her an email at EvilHRLady@gmail.com.

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