Employees increasingly are taking to an anonymous chat app called Blind to vent about their employers, as Amazon Inc. learned recently, when hundreds of workers blasted the retail giant over its handling of an on-site suicide attempt. Since there’s nothing companies can do to ban Blind, they’d be wise to monitor the app and use it to improve their compliance efforts, employment lawyers say.
On the morning of Nov. 28, an Amazon employee was injured when he jumped off a building at the company’s Seattle headquarters. More than 200 employees took to Blind to complain about Amazon’s failure to send out a companywide email addressing the incident, its performance improvement plan system and CEO Jeff Bezos. Blind, a bulletin-board-like app, allows employees who have registered with an official company email address to chat with their colleagues or with people from other companies about any topic they choose.
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