I dunno, it seems pretty transparent it's bullshit. If I read stuff like this it's obviously signaling a toxic work culture full of company koolaid. I never drink the koolaid. I try to do a good job and work hard, but I never get into company culture stupidity. It's not in my nature.

True - it's deceitful and spreading misinformation.

This is tangental, but I also think that posting open job positions online when there isn't one should be considered fraud as well. Same with recruiters who do the bait and switch. People invest time from their lives into those, only to result as a record in a database somewhere when there was never any intention to hire.

I agree. Proving it would be difficult though.

Yep. It would have to require a regulating body like the IRS to be involved, since new hires are reported against EIN.

Just like institutionalized discrimination, prohibiting this has no teeth when nobody can prove it's happening.

> prohibiting this has no teeth when nobody can prove it's happening

If you take a job, find the experience to diametrically-opposed to how it was represented on GlassDoor and suspect your hirer of astro-turfing, a lawsuit with discovery would quickly uncover the action.

Oh god how I wish people would start thinking just a single cycle ahead in terms of unintended consequences before knee-jerking into outlawing things.

Seriously, what could possibly go wrong when companies can get sued over the inaccuracies of anonymous third-party review websites?

Reminder: you don't need to lose a lawsuit for one to be enormously costly.

Who would have regulatory oversight on this one? Fake Yelp and Amazon reviews go to the FTC and State Attorney Generals (Who could do a far better job.)