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OpenCompany — Tell your boss how you really feel
OpenCompany is a culture management platform that helps companies measure, analyze, compare, strengthen and optimize their organizational culture. OpenCompany lets you provide feedback to your boss anonymously with the purpose of improving internal culture, change and promoting transparency.
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Brendan Beirne
I love this idea...
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Hunter
@OpenCompany is designed to offer employees a safe place to provide constructive feedback on their organization without the fear of repercussions, judgment or ridicule. Congrats on the launch @gregsonelliott
@bentossell very good point! Although, in our Employee Voices section we do encourage employees to remove their anonymity when offering solutions to company problems! Credit where credit is due :)
@gregsonelliott ha of course!
This reminds me of an anonymous version of Know Your Company - which I think is pretty cool. People in big companies are often too scared to ask questions, this could be a way to break that barrier!
@bentossell Dearest Ben,
We recently received your feedback and we'd like to setup a time to discuss your thoughts with you.
Cheers,
Bossman
Great idea, and actually something I personally wanted for our company. There is just not enough information about the product for managers. Like for example, no way to see the actual experience or even pricing without signing up.
Hey Greg!
This reminds me of this simple app I built while learning Rails.
http://github.com/nshntarora/Ope...
When I ran around showing this to people (like any beginner would), they said, initially people will play fair. They'll try and see the extent of anonymity, how much can they say till it affects them. Once they trust the anonymity factor enough, they'll start messing around. This is when maximum abuse takes place.
Case in point, YikYak and Secret.
So, what are your plans to control abuse in the longer run?
@nshntarora Thanks for sharing. Yes, abuse is a factor any anonymous platform needs to consider. We have a number of mechanisms in place to control this - including community moderation, and the ability to escalate or remove non constructive feedback. Thanks for the interest!
Hey guys cool stuff. But what's Company Equality Score? Can you tell more about it?
@marko_is Thanks! Company Equality Score is a calculation of employee opinions on their co-workers, leadership, and organization with regards to equality. Opinion data is tracked via a number of different ways on OpenCompany - surveys, anonymous feedback systems, issue escalations, community forums.
@sridhar_kondoji Hi there! Good question! One thing we focus on is collecting anonymous feedback from current employees. We want to ensure the people providing feedback to their bosses are truly employees at the company! Thanks for the support.
@gregsonelliott @sridhar_kondoji "How different than glassdoor?" --> that's exactly the question I had when I saw the tag line... that's what people do on glassdoor already.
Hi all - OpenCompany has just exited our beta program! We've completely redesigned the UX, and tweaked a number of features to make the tools work better for you and your colleagues. Would love if you all could check it out, and look forward to your feedback.
@attackofthetext Hi, thanks for the question! Yes, to ensure an employee is an active member of an organization they must register with their company email. The email address is never displayed to any other user on the platform, and any feedback submitted is not traceable back to the user email account. Anonymity is a key to our platform, we share our Anonymity pledge with all of our users:
"OpenCompany is designed to offer employees a safe place to provide constructive feedback on their organization without the fear of repercussions, judgement or ridicule.
We pride ourselves on creating a place where everyone can be heard. We are committed to protecting our users anonymity, it is an integral part of our service offering, therefore, we will never disclose identifying information on any Voices posts or survey’s answered to your employer without your express permission."
Good idea @gregsonelliott. Given web anonymity opens the gates for potential abuse, have you had any incidents yet?
@rueter Thank you! We've been lucky that the abuse, trolling, flaming has been minimal. We have a focus on current employees or organizations, so only those who currently work at a company can offer feedback. We feel this gives a bit of credibility and self moderation.
Anonymous feedback doesn't quite bore well with the open company narrative. Curious to know your thoughts/findings around feedback that isn't anonymous
@kinski80 Yikes! That's not good, we've reported the site as a false positive, and can ensure you all is safe :)
Idea: Allow an option to turn on anonymity instead of simply having to sign off with your name. Otherwise people can sign off as someone else etc. Make it so that the post itself is shown under the person who posted it so that their name shows. So then it makes sure that the person is talking from his behalf and not being impersonated. But otherwise it's a pretty good platform!