When it comes to tech companies that do best by women, Salesforce is at the top. That’s according to an analysis by Comparably, which sorted through its thousands of employee insights to come up with a list of the 10 tech companies that are rated highest by female employees. Each company was assigned a score out of 100 … Read full-story
Comparably’s mission is to make work more transparent and rewarding, and the platform has amassed millions of public culture ratings and reviews from employees at 20,000+ US companies. On Thursday, the company launched their new public company pages, with a variety of data on how people are rating their workplaces. Among the most important and unique … Read full-story
Twenty-seven percent of women employed at technology companies say they have been sexually harassed at work, according to data compiled by Comparably. The results, culled from more than 10,000 workers who responded to an ongoing query on Comparably, illustrate a problem that has bubbled over for Silicon Valley firms in recent years. The results are as … Read full-story
Hypothetically, if you were to quit your job tomorrow, what would your reason be? For 41% of workers, the number one answer is being “underpaid or unappreciated,” according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably. Indeed, that response was the most popular among people of all ages (18 to 66), genders, ethnicities, … Read full-story
It may be surprising to hear, but your company’s noble mission isn’t what keeps most people coming back everyday. It’s all about comfort Thirty-four percent of workers rated “comfort and familiarity” as the main reason they stay at their company, according to data by Comparably. The next most popular response was “compensation and benefits” (26%). … Read full-story
Company culture doesn’t just happen. It starts at the top. That’s why bad bosses are such a bummer. In failing to set clear goals, playing favorites, or being passive-aggressive, they’re dismantling the very thing they should be building. And no one benefits from an environment like that, though plenty of people deal with it every … Read full-story
Three in four people say they hang out with their co-workers “once a month,” “once a quarter,” or “never,” according to data by Comparably. Of the more than 10,000 technology workers polled by Comparably, just 17% say they socialize with their co-workers outside of work “once a week” and 9% say they do so “multiple … Read full-story
When done right, meetings can be incredibly productive. But for nearly two-thirds of people, they’re “meh” at best. In a recent query of more than 5,000 workers across the tech industry, 38% of people described their meetings as “average,” and 25% described their meetings as either “poor” or “horrible.” Altogether, that means 63% of people are unimpressed … Read full-story
A query of more than 10,000 tech workers reveals that people who work in the communications are least content with their work-life balance. Fifty-three percent of workers in the communications department at tech companies say they are satisfied with their work-life balance, according to a July 3 reading of an ongoing query by Comparably. Breaking it down … Read full-story
Inhaling a sandwich at your desk might be *your* norm, but it’s not *the* norm. In fact, 53% percent of workers in tech say they generally take an hour or more for lunch, according to the latest results of an ongoing query by Comparably. Workers in industries outside of tech: Workers in tech: Just 1 in … Read full-story
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft — they’re five of the biggest publicly traded tech companies and fierce competitors in the fight for talent. Since the tech industry has been hit with a barrage of news stories on gender and diversity pay gap as well as culture issues, we were curious to see how employees … Read full-story
Fifty-eight percent of workers say their companies aren’t doing what they should to hold onto them, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably. The responses came from more than 1,000 workers in the technology industry as of June 6. HR workers were most optimistic People who work in HR were the … Read full-story
Thirty-three percent of workers aged 56 to 60 admitted to having dated a coworker while they worked at the same company, according to data from Comparably. The data is from a June 2 reading of an ongoing query of more than 5,000 workers in the technology industry. Your chances increase with time Thirty-three percent was the … Read full-story
