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They already do that.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/ZURU-Reviews-E2286297.htm

> Glassdoor Alert: Employer Legal Action

> This employer has taken legal action against reviewers and/or Glassdoor for the reviews that have appeared on this profile. Please exercise your best judgment when evaluating this employer. Learn more about Glassdoor Alerts.

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That's interesting, I didn't know they did that. But it could be better:

1) This alert doesn't show up at all on mobile.

2) IMO this should either affect the overall score or be displayed in search results as well, which is not currently the case: https://www.glassdoor.com/Search/results.htm?keyword=ZURU

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".

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?

Yesterday I accessed the link on mobile and also could not see the warning. I can see it today. Maybe they reacted to your comment?

Imo its good enough, doing more visible thing or showing them even worse might make them walk on thin line for another lawsuit

It's showing on my mobile phone?

And I just checked a company where I know it happened.

No warning.. so no idea why and how they show it..

Shows up on mobile for me

I imagine Glassdoor is reacting to the situation and is going on the "Better to get out part of the solution now than wait to get everything out perfectly" which I would agree with.

I see no such alert on Glassdoor's Zuru page. Nor do searches of the web page on "alert" "legal" and "action" lead me to an alert. Like it never happened.

Is this not Glassdoor's Zuru page?

https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-ZURU-EI_IE2286...

If so, it's on there, down in the reviews section

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