Positivity pit | Starbucks, Pacific Union, Meta: The ten giant US companies where employee confidence is lowest

Employee confidence in their employer is lowest at companies including Starbucks, Pacific Union, a study of Glassdoor reviews for 106 of America’s biggest businesses has found.

The analysis, conducted by Switch On Business, examined 198,617 Glassdoor, calculating the percentage of employees who rated the business outlook of their employer as ‘positive.’

According to the findings, the future is looking particularly bleak at Union Pacific Corporation (UNP), with just 27.17% of reviews giving a positive rating.

Lance Fritz, Union Pacific’s former CEO stepped down in 2023 after hedge fund Soroban Capital Partners pushed for his exit in a letter that cited “years of persistent operating underperformance,” and that UNP was “rated by employees as the worst place to work and has the lowest employee CEO approval rating (ranked 500th out of 500 in both).”