LGBTQIA EMPLOYEES REVIEW EMPLOYERS ANONYMOUSLY

By Vic Gerami

OutBüro, a new rating and review system provides LGBTQIA employees the ability to anonymously rate and review their current and recent past employer(s) at no cost to the employee.

Founded by US Army veteran and social entrepreneur Dennis Velco, the ratings capture many factors both unique to their LGBTQ work life experience and general employee satisfaction. A simple way to describe OutBüro is as a mash up of Glassdoor.com and HRC’s Corporate Equality Index.

OutBüro aims to be the open and employee reported source for insight into the LGBTQ friendliness of every employer everywhere. OutBüro is inclusive, yet not limited to US Fortune 1,000 companies. It is available to all employers, any type, any size, and anywhere in the world.

OutBuro indicates if an employer has the following LGBTQ friendly policies, benefits, resources and practices:

• Sexual orientation non-discrimination policy
• Gender Identity non-discrimination policy
• Domestic partner benefits
• Transgender inclusive benefits
• LGBTQ employee resource group
• Requires same LGBTQ equality standard in contractors and vendors
• LGBTQ inclusion competency training
• Has same policies, benefits, resources and practices throughout the globe and subsidiaries
• Publicly demonstrates support for LGBTQ quality Globally, Nationally and Locally
• Appropriately leverages LGBTQ content in its marketing year round – not just Pride month

OutBüro is also a resource for www.OutBuro.comLGBTQ job seekers to gain insight into a potential employer’s work culture. It allows employers to claim or add their OutBüro Employer Listing and thereafter control the content representing the company/organization and interact with the anonymous raters/reviewers.

Please visit OutBuro.com for more information.

Vic Gerami

A noted columnist, Vic Gerami is also a journalist and media contributor who is also publisher and editor of The Blunt Post. His show, 'The Blunt Post with Vic' on Public Radio KPFK 90.7 FM, part of Pacifica Network, launched in 2018. Today reaching national international audiences, Gerami first built a foundation of knowledge and skills by learning the media industry during his years at Frontiers Magazine, followed by positions at LA Weekly and Voice Media Group. For the second time, Gerami was selected as a finalist in the Los Angeles Press Club’s National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards “Columnist of the Year” category in 2019, having first made the final round of consideration in 2017. His celebrity Q&A column, '10 Questions with Vic', is syndicated internationally. The Wall Street Journal featured Gerami as a “leading gay activist” in its landmark 2008 coverage of opposition to Proposition 8, the ballot measure that for years denied same-sex couples in California the freedom to marry. In addition to his years of volunteer work as a leading advocate for marriage equality, later Gerami went on to serve as a Planning Committee member for the historic Resist March in 2017. Vic Gerami is also a founding board member of Equality Armenia. In 2015, Gerami was referenced in the landmark Supreme Court civil rights case, Obergefell v. Hodges, in which the Court held in a 5–4 decision that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process and the Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Vic Gerami is a contributor to the LGBTQ San Diego County News, Windy City Times, Montrose Star, DC Life Magazine, Out & About Nashville, Q Virginia, GNI MAG, QNotes, GoWeHo, Asbarez, California Courier, Desert Daily Guide, Armenian Weekly, GED, The Pride LA, IN Magazine, OUT Traveler, The Fight and The Advocate Magazine among others.

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