These rules protect two things at once: your right to describe your working life plainly, and everyone's right not to be defamed.
What we publish
- First-hand experience only. Write about employers you have actually worked for, as an employee or contractor. Second-hand accounts and reviews written on behalf of someone else are declined.
- Situations and patterns, not people. Describe what happened, when, and how often. Do not name or identify private individuals, including colleagues, managers and customers.
- Your honest opinion, clearly yours. Opinions and impressions are welcome and protected. State them as your experience rather than as established fact.
What we decline
- Attacks on identifiable people. Names, initials plus role, or descriptions specific enough to identify someone, including accusations of crime, incompetence or misconduct aimed at a named person.
- Invented events and score manipulation. Reviews describing things that did not happen, coordinated campaigns, reviews of competitors, and employer-solicited reviews written under pressure.
- Confidential and unlawful content. Trade secrets, customer data, non-public financials, discriminatory or harassing language, and threats.
Writing a review that gets published and actually helps
Specific beats sweeping. "During the season, shifts regularly ran three to four hours over without overtime pay" is stronger, more useful and more durable than "management exploits everyone." Dates, frequency and concrete situations carry weight. Absolutes and insults do not, and they are the reviews most likely to be declined or successfully disputed.