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Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 69 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Everyone thinking this was a business blunder... People got paid a lot of money to kill this site. It served in its own small way, to give workers a bit of power in relation to employers and that was unacceptable.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

Yeah, this reeks of generic neoliberal sabotage to me. They do the same thing with unions and political parties. If anything is a potential threat to profits, it's infiltrated and undermined.

There's simply no way that a team focused on employee rights does something like this. Everybody working there would definitely be aware that companies routinely try to identify and punish people for their posts. That alone would end any non-malicious plans for using real names.