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by tpoacher 1434 days ago
I didn't know this either. I stand corrected.

Having said that, apart from what you also flagged, it's also a bit bland. Like "there's some legal stuff here, exercise caution".

Instead the badge could have symbolic character, an emotive icon ... something. Something that strongly implies "Danger Will Robinson" without explicitly saying so. Something any company would want to avoid risking that thing showing next to their logo, unless it was absolutely necessary.

As it is now, all I'm getting is a bland "huh, something legal must have happened here".

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I hear what you're saying, and I think that it would be good to have more clear language, particularly for people new to white-collar employment (which, I imagine, would be a good portion of Glassdoor's audience)(people with more established careers can check Glassdoor AND ask people in their network, whereas people new to the industry may lack/have less of the professional network).

That said, at least here in the US, a carefully-bland legal statement strongly implies what you're looking for. Like, the more bland, the bigger the warning sign :)

I think it should also be below the ZURU logo. Right now it looks like a generic warning for the site (e.g. "Glassdoor goes offline for maintenance in 5 mins")
But it does give you enough to start doing more searching to understand the greater context, no?