Staying anonymous

Where you post from

• Use your own phone or computer. Work laptops and work phones often run monitoring software that can record screens, keystrokes and the sites you visit. It sees what you do no matter which site you use, so no website can protect you from it.
• Use your own connection. Use mobile data or your home Wi-Fi, not the office network or a company VPN. A company network can log that a device visited WorkHush, though it usually can’t see what you wrote.
• Use a personal browser. Avoid a browser profile signed in to your work account or managed by your employer. Those can sync your history to the company.
• On a shared device, use a private window. Your saves, follows and votes are kept in the browser. A private window forgets them when you close it.

What you write

• Leave out details only a few people know. A small meeting, an exact date, a number only your team has seen, your exact title or office. Ask yourself who else could know this. If the answer is a handful of people, you are one of them.
• Paraphrase internal messages instead of pasting them. Companies sometimes send slightly different versions of the same memo to different people, so a word-for-word quote can point to whose copy it was.
• Write plainly. People who know you can recognize favorite phrases, the way you punctuate, or how you sign off. Plain, neutral wording is harder to place.
• Don’t post the same words anywhere else. If the same text appears in a group chat, on LinkedIn or on another site, a simple search connects them.
• Leave the name blank. WorkHush picks a random name for each post. A name you choose, especially one you reuse, lets people link your posts together.

When you post

• Give it some time. A post that appears minutes after a meeting with six people in it narrows things down. Waiting a few hours, or a day, makes timing a much weaker clue.
• Don’t tell anyone you posted. Not even a coworker you trust. The safest secret is one nobody else holds.

After you post

• You have 15 seconds to undo (up to 2 minutes with More time). After that, WorkHush has no way to tell who wrote a post, so it can’t remove it as yours. If you need a post taken down later, report it and explain why.
• Clear your browser data if you don’t want saves, follows or votes left on the device.

If you’re reporting wrongdoing

An anonymous post shares what you know, but it doesn’t give you legal protection. A lawyer, or an official whistleblower program such as the SEC’s, may protect you in ways a post can’t. WorkHush can’t give legal advice.