Blind (app)

Blind is an app that provides an anonymous forum and community for verified employees to discuss issues. Users on Blind are grouped by topics, company and their broader industry. The app verifies that the registered users actually work in the company through their work email and it keeps user identities untraceable through patented technology.[1][2]

Blind logo

The app has been in the news in multiple cases, noticeably when its anonymous surveys reveal the frank opinions of employees across industries. However, it is also used for more discussions about everyday topics such as salaries.[3]

According to its app pages on the iOS App Store and Google Play, it has registered employees from over 83,000 companies.[4] According to Forbes,[5] the app is being used worldwide and is influencing corporate decisions by giving executives information about employees' concerns.[6]

Employees from various companies have provided their input on situations at their workplace through the app's surveys and chats, including the Korean Air VP rage 7 sacking incidence,[5][7][8] Uber sexual harassment claims,[9][10] Google memo,[11][12][13][14] and Amazon employment conditions and problems.[15]

References
  1. "Blind - Your Anonymous Workplace Community". Blind. Teamblind. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  2. US patent 9439072B2, Moon, Seong Uk & Jeong, Yeong Jun, "System and method for authentication", issued 2016-09-06, assigned to Teamblind Inc
  3. Perry, Tekla S. (27 July 2017). "Tech Workplace Gossip App Blind Opens to the Masses". IEEE Spectrum. IEEE. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  4. "Your Anonymous Workplace Community - Blind". App Store. Apple Inc. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  5. Trieu, Rosa (2 June 2016). "How Businesses Are Using Anonymous Blind App To Change Work Culture". Forbes. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  6. Kaak, Jeyup S. (18 May 2015). "Employees Vent Via 'Blind,' an Anonymous App". The Wall Street Journal. News Corp. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  7. Loizos, Connie (30 October 2015). "Talk With Your Colleagues Anonymously, With Blind". TechCrunch. Oath Tech Network. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  8. Flynn, Kerry (2 March 2017). "Blind: The hot app where all the best Silicon Valley gossip is read right now". Mashable. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  9. Bort, Julie (17 May 2017). "Blind, the anonymous chat app once banned by Uber, is expanding". Business Insider. Allure Media. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  10. Young-won, Kim (30 March 2017). "Blind: The anonymous app that serves as Silicon Valley's gossip outlet". The Investor. Herald Corporation. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  11. Bort, Julie (10 August 2017). "Over half of Google employees polled say the web giant shouldn't have fired the engineer behind the controversial memo". Business Insider. Allure Media. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  12. Gasseé, Jean-Louis (15 August 2017). "Google has some complicated lessons to learn from the James Damore case". Quartz. Atlantic Media. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  13. Flynn, Kerry (8 October 2017). "Silicon Valley's gossip app is all over the place on the 'Google Manifesto'". Mashable. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  14. Berrien, Hank (10 August 2017). "Survey: 56% Of Google Employees OPPOSED Firing Of Google Memo Guy". The Daily Wire. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  15. Kim, Eugene (20 December 2016). "Hundreds of Amazon employees used an anonymous app to vent about how the recent suicide attempt was handled". Business Insider. Allure Media. Retrieved 27 October 2017.


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