Employee Feedback Database
This mischevious rodent has wondered of late if it would be viable to set up an internet site or blog that would serve the local/national community with the following purpose:
- People would anonymously leave posts that rate how good (or how bad) it is to work for their various past and present employers, and/or typical ethical practices at these companies
- Example 1: Mrs. S would leave a message about how Company X is very amenable to allowing their employees to work flex-time, even though this is not stated in the employee handbook
- Example 2: Mr. X, Company Y's accountant, would post something outlining how Company Y tends to underpay its female employees
- This could be used for potential new employees of companies to see if anything exists regarding their prospective employer- both good reviews and bad reviews
- It may be a way to keep track of a company's reputation and possibly shame them into improving poor behaviour
Obviously it would be very difficult to ensure that the content is reasonably accurate when it is subjective and written anonymously. Alternatively, to increase its viability, the site could keep a secure registration database of people who post so it could be confirmed that they actually worked for the company. If these issues could be sorted out, it would be an interesting tool for job searchers, and for corporate watchdogs. Maybe something that could be integrated into Workopolis or Monster.
If anyone out there has any ideas about this wacky scheme, I'd love to hear it!
posted by Super Squirrel @ 2/25/2005 03:04:00 PM
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2 Comments:
Mr Marmot, I applaud the sentiment behind this idea, but wonder how you would account for people's OPINIONS about the work place they are current inhabiting. If, for example, Ms. C were to add a post stating how progressive her company was, how can other readers of this post determine if she is rating in comparison to all companies in a category, or if she is comparing to her last company where she had to pick out gifts for her bosses wife and girlfriends.
Some (good) companies do put effort into evaluating the current market conditions - I am thinking about salary in this example - in order to ensure that all employees are on an equal footing from this perspective. I think you need to build this type of research into an eventual employee feedback database in order to put comments into some perspective.
LDT pointed out a site BadCorp that is doing something along the lines that I was thinking about.
They are focused more on large, transnational corporations, whereas I was also concerned about community-based businesses.
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