Employees’ Choice Unveiled: Glassdoor Announces Top Best Places to Work

Since launching early this year, nearly 75,000 employees have come to Glassdoor to anonymously contribute salary information and share opinions about their company’s work environment and rate their overall satisfaction. We decided to tabulate the results and see who rated highest… and lowest. We are proud to announce the ultimate Employees’ Choice Awards for Workplaces [...]

Who’s the Lowest of them All? Glassdoor Reports Companies with Lowest Overall Ratings

With a New Year right around the corner, it may be time for some companies to take a look at what’s working and what’s not. We all know and recognize that things are tough right now, and for employers this is an opportunity to take a look inside so that you retain your talent and [...]

Laid Off? Remember: You are Talented!

 

Editors Note: Rusty Rueff is a regular guest contributor on employment practices and careers to the Glassdoor.com blog and also a member of the Glassdoor board of directors.  As co-author of Talent Force: A New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business, (Prentice-Hall. 2006), Rusty provides unique perspectives from an employer’s point of view combined with practical career advice for [...]

Lay off Lessons: Are Companies Learning?

Editors Note: Rusty Rueff is a regular guest contributor on employment practices and careers to the Glassdoor.com blog and also a member of the Glassdoor board of directors.  As co-author of Talent Force: A New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business, (Prentice-Hall. 2006), Rusty provides unique perspectives from an employer’s point of view combined with practical career advice for employees [...]

Glassdoor Makes it Easier to Find Salary and Job Information in Areas Important to You

We’ve made some improvements to Glassdoor.com that makes it easier for our community members to find out for free salary and company reviews in the locations that matter most to them. Want to know what it is like to work Bank of America in Charlotte, North Carolina or in San Francisco, CA? Or do you [...]

Which CEOs Have Been Naughty or Nice According to Their Employees?

Yes, that’s right. It’s that time of year where we’re making our list and checking it twice trying to find out which CEO’s rated on Glassdoor.com have been naughty or nice in the eyes of their employees this year.

Genentech’s Art Levinson comes in as the #1 rated CEO (with at least 50 employees) with a [...]

Preparing for Life Before and After the Pink Slip

Each day recently brings more gloom with news of our souring economy. Just about every sector — from airlines to telecommunications to healthcare — is contracting. Many sources say we should brace for more. We all agree the end of the year is a less than ideal time to get such daunting news — especially [...]

Riding the Pink Slip Tidal Wave

In terms of layoffs, November was rough but December is expected to be worse according to a recent CNN article. Between January and November this year, CNN is reporting that there have been more than 1.9 million layoffs. The article states that more companies are expected to issue pink slips this month as they wrap [...]

Three of Top Five US Banks See Decline in Employee Satisfaction

With banks feeling the pinch externally due to pressures from a crumbling economy, employees at some of the top U.S. financial institutions are reacting to the dramatic cost-cutting measures.  In analysis of our ratings of the top five U.S. banks*, three watched their company ratings** drop two to ten percentage points in the past three months, based [...]

Auto Industry Bailout Moves Ahead – What do Employees Think?

Auto Workers of Big 3 Sound off about life within…and too many layers of management…
While nearly half (44%) of Americans disapprove of an auto industry bailout, according to a recent CBS poll , the Big 3 auto manufacturers are seemingly on their way to receiving emergency loans from the government to stay afloat based on [...]