Transparency

Where The Money Goes

What are your costs at Green Glass Jobs?

In June 2025:

• 256,91€ ($295 USD) monthly fee for the JBoard job board plan
• 14,40€ to Termly. A discounted monthly fee for its help making a cookie banner, consent management preference centre, privacy policy, and terms and conditions that follow California, European, and global rules
• 5,30€ ($6 USD) to register at dmca.copyright.gov as a Designated Copyright Agent (strongly recommended by Termly while I was creating a new Terms of Service policy through them)

In May 2025:

• 285,57€ Spanish freelancer fee (for some reason slightly higher this month than in April 2025)
• 265,02€ ($295 USD) monthly fee for the JBoard job board plan
• 39,99€ for high-quality logo images
• 25€ to someone to do a UX review of the process of buying a standard job posting while using a coupon to get 36€ off (includes the 4€ they will need to pay, which will come back to me as "revenue", minus the 1% climate donation and minus the Stripe transaction fee)
• 20€ for a one-hour UX review of creating an employer profile, a job post, and an employee profile
• 9,99€ for high-quality images of the logo formatted for social media
• 9,99€ to extend editing time on my logo, to make the logo more legible and accessible
• 9€ for the Plausible analytics monthly subscription
• 0,85€ Stripe fee when I issued a refund (they keep that original transaction fee of 85 euro cents)
• 0,31€ Stripe transaction fee
• 0,04€ donation via Stripe to carbon removal technologies

In April 2025:

• 271,39€ monthly freelancer fee to Spanish government
• 262,85€ ($295 USD) monthly fee for the JBoard job board plan
• 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:

• 180,92€ fee to be a freelancer in Spain (covers social security), which was pro-rated as I started after March 1st
• 179,71€ ($295 USD) monthly fee for the JBoard job board plan / software
• 68,34€ ($73.56 USD) 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 total revenue?

4€ in May 2025. This was from a kind tester who volunteered their time to test the job-posting process, paid the small job-posting fee, then refused to be compensated. In May I continued to test, organize, and write text for the site. No sales or marketing activities yet.

0€ in April 2025. I resigned from my day job in April and worked my last day towards the end of it. Once I've recovered from that workplace and tied up loose ends, I aim to spend much more time working regularly on this website.

0€ in March 2025. 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 job board software I use (JBoard). I pay a monthly fee to have this job board. I don't know how many people JBoard 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.

Website Stats

Who provides the visitor statistics for Green Glass Jobs?

Plausible provides the website statistics in the chart below. According to Plausible, it is a simple, ethical, open-source, privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics. Here are some reasons I like Plausible:

• Improved user experience – faster loading. Since the Plausible Analytics script is 75 times smaller than the Google Analytics Global Site Tag, a site with Plausible is less likely to load slowly.
• Relatively lower carbon footprint. Compared to heavier analytics scripts, a smaller script can lower the carbon footprint of the website.
• More privacy. Plausible doesn't track or collect any personal data, The website data is not shared with advertising companies or shared with any third parties at all.
• Plausible is transparent by being open-source (source code here) and has a public roadmap for user suggestions
• Renewable energy. Plausible runs on 100% renewable energy

How does the home page rate in terms of loading speed, accessibility, and SEO?

Results for mobile / cell phones

The May 2025 report from pagespeed.web.dev provided these results for mobile 📲 on the home page:

This image shows a PageSpeed Insights report I got for the homepage of greenglassjobs.com on Monday May 19th 2025. The report is for when the page is viewed on mobile.

In other words, on mobile, out of 100:

• 93 for performance
• 89 for accessibility (I have since requested changes from JBoard that should improve this score, and I added the accessiBe accessibility widget)
• 100 for best practices, and
• 92 for SEO (accessibility improvements should also improve SEO)

Results for desktop

The May 2025 report provided these results for desktop 🖥️ on the home page

• 99 for performance
• 90 for accessibility
• 100 for best practices, and
• 92 for SEO

I encourage you to use PageSpeed Insights to test the home pages of major brands. You may be surprised by how they score.

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Sustainability Actions 🍁

In what ways is Green Glass Jobs sustainable?

I support sustainability by:

• Choosing a more sustainable smartphone
• Choosing a green electricity provider
• Choosing to use a green browser on my laptop and smartphone
• Having 1% of each transaction on Stripe donated to carbon removal

What kind of smartphone do you use for work?

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 electronic waste 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 lower down).
• 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 electronic waste 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.

On my phone and on my computer, I use the free Ecosia browser, which uses ad revenue to plant trees and generate (a little) renewable energy. The image shows a desktop screenshot of the Ecosia search page.

Underneath the standard, centered search bar, there is a section titled Climate impact. In that section it says 231,521,235 trees have been planted by Ecosia and that €93,521,061 has been dedicated to climate action.

In my view, all companies and governments who say they care about the environment should have Ecosia as the default browser on every organization-owned desktop, laptop, and smartphone.

A screenshot of our electricity bill from February 2025. It shows that the electricity was from 100% renewable sources. It shows the impact on the environment as 0 kg of carbon dioxide and 0 mg of radioactive residues.

This chart above supports the consensus that renewable energy is safer and cleaner. It is a butterfly chart titled "What are the safest and cleanest sources of energy?" On the left side, the title is "Death rate from accidents and air pollution". On the right, the title is "Greenhouse gas emissions".

Sources of energy are listed, from highest to lowest. Coal, with the highest death rate from accidents and air pollution, is at the top. Coal also has the highest greenhouse gas emissions in tonnes.

From top to bottom, the list goes coal, oil, natural gas, biomass, hydropower, wind, nuclear energy, and solar. The chart notes the death rate from coal is 1230 times higher than solar. It notes that the greenhouse gas emissions from coal are 160 times higher than nuclear.

Do purchases on Green Glass Door help the environment?

Yes, 1% of every purchase using Stripe goes towards towards permanent carbon removal technologies:

Glassdoor

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. And I read a story of someone posting a fake, negative review to undermine a business, too. So – at least anecdotally – the Glassdoor ratings can't be guaranteed as 100% accurate.

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.

Ratings can change over time. Can you guarantee that all the Glassdoor ratings are up-to-date?

I do my best, but no, I can't guarantee it. From my side:

• I require employers, while creating an account, to check a box that says, "We have at least 4 stars on Glassdoor"
• I require employers to post the link to their Glassdoor page, so anyone can double-check
• During account creation, I advise employers to check their Glassdoor page every month to ensure they maintain at least 4 stars
• I do my best to double check the Glassdoor star ratings myself

However, I cannot guarantee that the scores will always be up-to-date.

To be safe, I encourage all job seekers to follow the company's Glassdoor link and view the company's Glassdoor page themselves before applying to jobs.

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

In four ways:

• Minimum reviews. I require employers to have at least 10 reviews on their Glassdoor account
• Tags. 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
• Showing the salary. 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
• Glassdoor link. I require employers to post the link to their Glassdoor page, so potential candidates can easily read all the reviews

Why Only Bluesky?

Of all the social media platforms, why is Green Glass Jobs only on Bluesky? 🦋

Here are some reasons why I like Bluesky:

• Security. I can set a 128-character password. According to passwordmonster.com, similar passwords would take trillions of years to crack. Fingers crossed that quantum computing only puts a small dent in that number.
• 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 social media 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.

This image shows a screenshot of the Green Glass Jobs accessibility settings page. It shows a title of "Alt text" and both the options underneath it are selected / enabled. The selections are: "Require alt text before posting" and "Display larger alt text badges".

Accessibility

Is Green Glass Jobs accessible and compliant with accessibility regulations?

I have scanned the following pages with accessiBe. When the accessiBe accessibility widget is included, it rates them as accessible and compliant:

1. Home (see report)
2. About (see report)
3. Transparency (see report)

If you do not see an accessibility widget in the bottom right corner of your screen, try – if applicable – disabling your VPN.

What Are Your Social Media & AI Commitments?

I commit to:

• Providing value. I commit to only writing comments on social media that add value (e.g. answering a question or a pain point). For example, I will not write comments that simply summarize the post.
• Writing social media posts and comments myself. In other words, I commit to not using AI 🤖 to write social media posts or comments. This commitment aims to avoid AI-hallucinated "facts" (false claims) and "sources" (e.g. links that don't exist).

Cybersecurity

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.
• A privacy filter on my smartphone screen, whereby even people standing right next to me have a hard time seeing what's on my screen
• A privacy filter on my laptop screen
• 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 quickly after use
• Multi-factor authentication

What Is Green Glass Jobs Not?

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 and work in custom software development
• Manufacture weapons
• Sell cigarettes

What is Green Glass Jobs not trying to do?

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

Research

What research have you used for this website?

Among others, I've used the following sources:

• Cancel anytime!: How easy cancellation options enhance purchase intentions for services that require long-term commitments from the Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services (2023)
• Consumers say they would buy more subscriptions if canceling was easier relating to research by Toolkits and National Research Group

The research was not always precisely applicable – this site is neither a language course nor a gym membership, for example. However, the context seemed similar enough to me.

Tools

What tools and services do you use?

I use:

• accessiBe for improving accessibility (including the widget)
• Authy for multi-factor authentication
• Bitwarden for password security
• Bluesky for social media
• Canny for public feedback
• Ecosia for an environmentally-friendly browser
• Fairphone 5 for a repairable, ethical, longer-lasting smartphone
• Glassdoor to see employee reviews
• IconScout for free icons
• JBoard for the job board software, who use Amazon Web Services (AWS) in California for hosting
• Lottie Files for free animations
• Macbook Pro 2019 for my laptop
• Namecheap for domain registration and management
• Our World In Data for info and interactive charts
• PageSpeed Insights for page loading performance analysis and advice
• Pepeenergy for a clean electricity provider
• Pepephone for a certified B Corp phone plan and WiFi provider
• Perplexity Pro (AI) for helping add alt text, padding, aria-labels, and editing HTML in general
• Pexels for free images
• Physical privacy filters on my phone and laptop
• Plausible for privacy-friendly visitor statistics
• Proton Mail for secure email
• Proton VPN for secure internet connections
• Revolut and Sabadell for banking
• Stripe for payments and automatic environmental donations
• Termly for the user-friendly cookie policy, consent preferences dashboard, data request form, privacy policy, and terms of service

Attributions

Icons:

Advertising by Rank Sol on IconScout

Approach by Rank Sol on Iconscout

Balance Scale by Rank Sol on IconScout

Bluesky by Manojkumar Muthukumar on IconScout

Box by Rank Sol on IconScout

Corona Vaccine by Rank Sol on IconScout

Creative Development by Rank Sol on IconScout

Data Visualization by Rank Sol on IconScout

Discount by Kerismaker studio on IconScout

Free by The Icon Z on IconScout

Heirarchy by Rank Sol on IconScout

Investment by Rank Sol on IconScout

Laboratory Experiment by Rank Sol on IconScout

Management by Rank Sol on IconScout

Marketing by Rank Sol on IconScout

Organization by Rank Sol on IconScout

Safety Jackets by Rank Sol on IconScout

Images:

This image of solar panels is from Los Muertos Crew on Pexels.

Animations:

The butterfly animation on the Contact Me page is from LottieFiles by Mantarraya Invitaciones

The floating smartphone animation with dollar coins, a lock, and cuboid objects at the top of this Transparency page is from LottieFiles (though for some reason I can't find it there now. I swear it's true!)

Floating smartphone (with wrench etc.) on this Transparency page is from LottieFiles by Bojan Mltevski.

The open window animation overlooking water with moving clouds on the About page is from LottieFiles. It is by Artem.

The animation of wind turbines, solar panels, and houses is by Tanjil Mahmud on LottieFiles

Suggestions Portal

Where can I provide public suggestions for Green Glass Jobs?

You can suggest features, upvote your favourite ideas, and comment on other people's suggestions on my public Canny portal.

What's so great about Canny?

What I really like about the Canny portal:

1. Feedback. Most importantly, users can send feedback and suggestions for the website using Canny.
2. Prioritization. By having a count of the number of users who have upvoted a particular feature, I have a rough guide of how popular each piece of feedback is. I can then prioritize working on the most popular ideas.
3. Accountability. This Canny board is public. The public aspect adds accountability for me. It gives me an extra reason to reply promptly and to listen to users.

A preview of the Canny portal. You will need to create a Canny account to use it.

📆 Last updated: Tue 17 June 2025

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