Transparency

Many details on money, security, sustainability, and more.

Money

Image shows glasses, paperclips, a folder, a smartphone open to the calculator, and paper titled Small Business Accounting Checklist.

What are your costs at Green Glass Jobs?

Using local notation of a comma instead of a decimal point

In April 2025 so far:

262,85€ ($295 USD) monthly fee for the job board plan / software
50€ to a tax professional for help with trimestral tax filing (made as part of a single payment of 100€ that included personal taxes)
18,44€ to pay $20 USD to someone to test the account-creating and job-posting processes for a maximum of 1 hour
0€ in taxes due to 0€ in revenue so far

In March 2025, my total costs were 514,65€:

180,92€ fee to be a freelancer in Spain (covers social security), which was pro-rated as I started after March 1st
$295 USD (about 179,71€) monthly fee for the job board plan / software
$73.56 (68,34€) extra after upgrading the job board plan
60€ for help registering as an autonomo (freelancer)
10,46€ for Proton Unlimited (includes encrypted business email and VPN)
10,67€ related to domain purchase
4,55€ related to domain purchase

What is your revenue?

In April 2025 so far: 0€.

In March 2025, my revenue was zero. I just started this job board in March 2025. I've been writing the site, customizing it, and testing the processes. No sales or marketing activity. So I'm not surprised the revenue was zero.

What taxes do you pay?

I pay the monthly freelancer fee to the government, plus freelancer tax rates on the remaining income. Ivan, the tax professional I use informed me that – due to current revenue (under €30k) and my location – I owe no other taxes. For these reasons, there is no additional tax (e.g. VAT) added or described at checkout.

How many people work here?

One. Just me. That number does not include the people who provide the software I use. I pay a monthly fee to have this job board. I don't know how many people that company employs. I also occasionally hire other freelancers for short gigs (e.g. an hour of work to review part of the website).

My only regular colleague. Picture shows a dog sleeping in the sun in an armchair. Dog is a Labrador mix with blonde hair.

Security

Image shows a locked padlock in use. The rest of the picture is out of focus.

What do you do for security at Green Glass Jobs?

I use:

Proton Mail for open source, independently audited, end-to-end encrypted, zero access business email
Proton VPN connections on the Proton Unlimited plan. My default connection is a multi-hop connection. On my phone I use the Kill Switch feature, which only allows internet connections that use the VPN.
WPA3 on my WiFi
Bitwarden for generating and storing long, secure passwords. Like, up-to-128-characters long. According to Bitwarden, it is an open source, zero knowledge, end-to-end encrypted password manager.
With Bitwarden, I activated the features where it quickly clears my clipboard + locks me out after use
Multi-factor authentication

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Repairability & Sustainability

Tell me about the electricity, equipment, and software you use for work.

To promote a safer, cleaner world (see chart below), we source our electricity from a green electricity provider. We have a solar water heater for a similar reason. (I work from home, and by we I mean myself and the person I live with.)

A screenshot from our electricity bill from February 2025. It shows our energy is 100% from renewable resources.

Supporting the claim that renewable energy is safer and cleaner. Chart from Our World In Data. Image shows data regarding various sources of energy. It shows death rates from accidents + air pollution on the left. It shows greenhouse gas emissions on the right. The chart is a butterfly chart. Going upwards, both emissions and the death rates tend to increase substantially. From bottom to top, the sources of energy are solar, nuclear, hydropwer, biomass, natural gass, oil, and coal.

My smartphone is a Fairphone 5:

Repairable. Longer lasting. The website ifixit.com rated it 10/10 for repairability. Combined with long-term software updates, the Fairphone 5 is meant to last much longer than a regular smartphone, reducing electronic waste. I consider this issue important as the world's recycling rate is only about 20%
More ethical. The Good Shopping Guide ranked the Fairphone the highest in terms of ethics. The phone competed against 15 other smartphones, including the iPhone and the Google Pixel.
Reducing battery e-waste. Features a slower charging mode to increase the longevity of the battery (see image below).
Made more fairly. According to Fairphone:
Materials used were often recycled or fairly mined (e.g. the aluminium is 94% recycled, and the lithium is 99% mined fairly)
Fairphone is Fairtrade Gold Certified
Fairphone is a Certified B Corporation
They pay living wages

For more info: select these sections on the Fairphone website. Fairphone is not perfect (e.g. see their Glassdoor page). Still, they seem better than other smartphone companies. Image shows a section of the Fairphone 5 website with 4 containers. The containers are titled "More than 70% fair focus materials", "Made with respect for people", "Made climate conscious", and "Electronic waste neutral".

^ Interactive chart. While some countries do better than others, the world average for recycling rates is still low – just over 20%. The chart above shows electronic waste recycling rates in various countries and areas from 2006 to 2022. Croatia and Spain are between 80% and 100% (only shows up until 2018). Northern America and Europe are between 40% and 60%. The world average is just over 20%. Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean are all below 20%.

Reducing e-waste. On my Fairphone 5, I usually use the Eco Charge mode to increase the longevity of the battery. Image shows a cropped screenshot from a smartphone. It shows a title (Charging mode), help text (Customize your charging speed. Remember slowing charging equals longer battery life), and two options Eco Charge, and Fast Charge. The Eco Charge option is selected.

On my phone and on my computer, I use the Ecosia browser, which uses ad revenue to plant trees and generate (a little) renewable energy. Image shows a desktop screenshot of a new tab page in Ecosia. Underneath the standard, centered search bar, there is a section titled Climate impact. In that section it says 229,587,614 trees have been planted by Ecosia and that €92,892,634 has been dedicated to climate action.

Miscellaneous Questions

Do you think Glassdoor is perfect?

Uh, no, definitely not. In fact, I suspect at least one former employer has posted fake, positive reviews for themselves on Glassdoor.

Then why use Glassdoor?

Like star ratings for apps, the star rating can still be a decent (if imperfect) guide. And I have strategies to reduce the impact of potentially fake Glassdoor reviews.

How does Green Glass Jobs reduce the impact of potentially fake Glassdoor reviews?

In four ways:

I require employers to have at least 10 reviews on their Glassdoor account
I provide a lot of worker-friendly tags (e.g. unionized workplace, pension plan contributions) for employers to use on their job postings. I suspect employers who are dishonest in some ways are exploitative in others. As such, they may have fewer benefits for employees and be relatively less attractive compared to other employers
I require all job postings to disclose salary information. In my experience, a dishonest employer willing to write fake reviews on their own Glassdoor page can still be unwilling to disclose the salaries they pay, and thus screen themselves out of this website
I require employers to post the link to their Glassdoor page, so potential candidates can easily read all the reviews

Of all the social media platforms, why are you only on Bluesky? 🦋

Here's why I like Bluesky:

Security. I can set a 128-character password.
Moderation and mental health. I can mute certain words and phrases from my feed. In effect, I can avoid being drawn into topics and discussions that are both upsetting and outside of my control.
Accessibility. I can (and do) ask Bluesky to require me to add alt text to pictures and gifs (see image below). In addition to making the platform more accessible to people with visual impairments, this feature helps other users filter out the post more easily if the alt text contains words they've muted. So far I've made 7 posts with images. 100% of the images had alt text.
Influence over feeds + focus. In having lots of control over my feeds (what accounts I see, which ones I don't, what themes I see, etc.), I can focus on the topics I want to focus on.
Public benefit. Bluesky is a Public Benefit Corporation, a type of corporation which balances profits and purpose (rather than simply focusing on profits)
Portability. You can take your followers with you to new, connected apps
Transparency. Bluesky is transparent a.k.a. open source
Freedom. Bluesky is designed not to be controlled by a single company

I find other platforms lacking in many of these respects. With the features above, Bluesky is currently the only social media platform I want to use and support.

I ask Bluesky to require me to add alt text to pictures and gifs. This feature improves the accessibility of Bluesky. It also helps others avoid posts they don't want to see. Image shows a screenshot from Bluesky. It's in the Accessibility section of an account, under Alt text. Both of the following options are ticked: Require alt text before posting, and Display larger alt text badges.

What kinds of companies is Green Glass Jobs not for?

Due to a non-compete agreement and the mission of this site, here are some examples of companies this site is not designed for. Companies who:

Are based in the Canary Islands of Spain and involved in software development
Farm, produce or sell non-lab-grown animal meat
Manufacture weapons
Sell cigarettes
Sell or provide private health insurance

What kinds of positions is Green Glass Jobs not designed for?

Positions like:

Software developer
Software engineer
Back end developer
Front end developer
UI/UX designers
Product Owners
(Technical) Project Managers

What is Green Glass Jobs not?

I am not trying to create yet another collection of jobseeker profiles.

Why does Green Glass Jobs not focus on creating a collection of jobseeker profiles?

I do not want to give candidates:

Yet another site on which to fill out endless fields
The (often false) hope that they can sit back and recruiters will find them
An easy way to be judged on things other than merit. I believe publicly displaying names, photos, group memberships, and social media activity facilitates conscious and unconscious discrimination based on:
age
attractiveness
fashion sense
gender
immigration status
race
religion
sexual orientation, and
socioeconomic class
Another place to get scammed
Another place to receive spam