
Breakroom is an employer-review comparison platform operated by ZipRecruiter as an independent brand.
Breakroom is owned by ZipRecruiter, Inc., which acquired its parent company Poplar Technologies Ltd in a transaction that closed on 2024-07-23 and was announced on 2024-08-07. The deal was reported at a total value of $16.5M including $12.6M in cash consideration.
ZipRecruiter has described Breakroom as continuing to operate as an independent brand rather than being folded into its own product line, and the Breakroom site footer credits the service as being brought to users by ZipRecruiter, Inc. The platform even rates its own parent among the employers covered by its quiz data.
Breakroom collects workplace data through an anonymous thirty-question quiz that asks employees about pay, hours, benefits, and working conditions. Responses are aggregated, and once an employer reaches five or more submissions the platform publishes a 1-10 rating alongside the individual workplace factors behind it.
The aggregated data powers three connected surfaces: employer ratings that job seekers check before applying, a job search that indexes United States vacancies and can be sorted by Breakroom Rating, and best-employer rankings organised by occupation, industry, and location. The quiz is free to take and does not require an account.
Breakroom positions itself around hourly and frontline work, the segments where employer choice matters most and where pay, scheduling, and manager quality vary sharply between otherwise comparable roles. Its ratings and job listings cover both the United Kingdom and the United States, and the company reports having rated more than sixteen thousand US employers.
The company publishes a Workplace Index report that tracks trends across frontline industries, and its parent ZipRecruiter has stated an intention to integrate Breakroom insights into its own job-matching products. That integration path is the main channel through which Breakroom data could reach a wider audience of employers and job seekers.