WorkHush is for honest talk about what’s happening at work: layoffs, reorgs, pay, leadership and culture. Criticism is welcome, including harsh criticism of leaders and their decisions. These rules keep it fair to the people being discussed and safe for the people posting.
The short version
- Criticize decisions and leaders freely. Name executives; describe everyone else by their role.
- Never accuse a named private person, such as a coworker or manager, of wrongdoing.
- No threats, harassment, contact details, illegal content or advertising.
- Label your post honestly: personal experience, opinion or question, or something you heard.
- If you think a post was removed by mistake, ask us to review it within 30 days.
1What’s welcome
1.1What fits here
Firsthand experiences of layoffs, reorganizations, return-to-office plans, pay, benefits, management and culture. Opinions about strategy and leadership. Questions for people at the same company. News you heard, clearly labeled as unverified.
1.2Label what you share
Every post is marked Personal experience, Opinion / question or Unverified information. Choose honestly: readers weigh posts by these labels, and Unverified information is the right choice for anything you heard secondhand.
2Who you can name
2.1Executives and public figures
You can name and criticize people who act publicly for the company: the CEO and other officers, board members, and leaders named in company filings, press releases or news coverage. Keep to their public role and decisions, and present claims you can’t back up as unverified rather than certain.
2.2Everyone else
Coworkers, managers, recruiters and HR staff who aren’t public figures shouldn’t be singled out on a public site. Describe them by role (“my director”, “an HR partner”), not by name, and leave out details that would identify them.
2.3Accusations
Never accuse a named private person of misconduct, a crime or dishonesty. Posts that do are removed even if the claim may be true. If you have evidence of wrongdoing, a lawyer, your company’s ethics line or a regulator can act on it in ways an anonymous post can’t.
3What gets removed
- Threats, or content that encourages violence or harm.
- Accusations about a named private person.
- Harassment of a specific person, including other participants.
- Contact details and personal information: home addresses, phone numbers, personal emails, ID numbers.
- Details that could identify the author or someone else.
- Sexual content.
- Illegal content, or content that encourages illegal acts.
- Text copied from someone else’s copyrighted work, beyond a short quote.
- Advertising, recruiting pitches, spam and self-promotion.
- Display names that impersonate a company, a role such as HR, or a real person.
Swear words are partly masked rather than removed. Posts may also be taken down to comply with a valid legal order.
4How enforcement works
4.1Automatic checks
Posts appear right away. Automatic checks stop posts with threats, contact details or blocked words before they appear, and hide a published post at once if a report shows it breaks one of those rules.
4.2Reports
Anyone can report a post. Reports the automatic checks can’t judge go to a moderator once enough people make them. A person reads each one, then keeps the post or removes it with a reason.
4.3What readers see
A removed post is replaced by a short notice saying why. Replies to it stay, so the conversation still makes sense.
5If a post was removed
5.1Ask for a review
If you think a removal was a mistake, send us the link to the post through the contact form and say why. Removed text is kept for 30 days for this, then deleted for good, so ask within that time. Because we don’t know who wrote any post, we review the post itself, not who is asking.
5.2Your own posts
You can take down your own post only while its undo window is open: 15 seconds, up to 2 minutes if you tap More time. After that we can’t tell who wrote it, so we can’t remove it at your request. Read your post before you send it.