Can A Company Delete A Negative Review on Indeed?

Negative reviews on Indeed can hurt your company’s ability to attract star employees and damage your online reputation.

So, does Indeed have any provision to allow business owners to delete negative reviews left by angry employees on their Indeed company page?

The short answer is “No.”

But in this post, I’ll give you the three options you have for getting rid of bad reviews on Indeed.

Companies can only get negative reviews deleted from Indeed if the content of the review is a violation of Indeed’s terms of service.

Indeed calls reviews “user content” and according to their terms of service, may remove employee reviews that are not in compliance with these general user content guidelines:

• Unlawful -threatening, defamatory, or obscene
• Discriminatory — sexual, ethnic, or race
• Privacy — no proprietary, confidential information or intellectual property
• Spam — advertisements, pyramid schemes, investment opportunities
• Personal Identification — social security, passport or driver’s license numbers

Removal Option #1

If you feel review content violates one or more of these guidelines, you can flag it by following these steps:

1. Login to your Indeed account and go to your employer page.
2. Locate the review you want to flag and tap the flag icon.
3. Select the reason why you want to Indeed to remove the review.
4. Hit submit.

Removal Option #2

Here’s another way you report reviews to Indeed:

1. Submit a ticket via Indeed’s Employer Help Center.
2. After visiting the link, click the “Need help with Company Pages?” blue link in the right hand corner of the page.
3. Complete the form.
4. Hit submit.

IMPORTANT: These two methods are about the same, except with the second option, you will receive a response from Indeed’s team.

Removal Option #3

Within 5–7 days, if the review has not been removed from your employer profile, you can hire a professional online reputation management company to attempt to remove the review for you: https://affordablereputationmanagement.com/delete-negative-indeed-reviews/. Our service provides a 50% success rate at removing Indeed reviews.

Removal Option #4

If our service is unsuccessful, you don’t pay anything and your last option is to hire an attorney.

If your lawyer can show defamation, blackmail, or extortion, there’s a high likelihood the bad review will be removed.

Closing

It’s best to head off negative reviews before they start by addressing issues in the workplace as you become aware of them.

But in some cases, employees just have an axe to grind and when they turn to the internet, it can muck up your online reputation and attractiveness to future job applicants.

By following the steps in this post, you’ll be taking the appropriate steps to do everything you can to have bad reviews on Indeed removed.