A disgruntled ex-employee is posting about us everywhere. What can we actually do?

Disgruntled ex-employee situations are common and they almost always involve more than reputation work in isolation. The first move is usually legal: the client’s counsel reviews the situation, the separation agreement, any applicable NDAs, and what corrective options exist on the underlying labor or contractual matter. In parallel, the reputation team begins continuous monitoring across the platforms the former employee is using (typically Glassdoor, LinkedIn, X, sometimes Reddit, occasionally a personal blog or substack), files platform reports where specific posts violate terms of service, and begins building authoritative counter-content – employee testimonials, third-party press, recognition coverage – on the same queries the negative posts are ranking for. None of these moves alone resolves the situation; the combination, sustained over months, does. Anyone promising a quick takedown is usually selling something that either does not work or creates new legal exposure.