America's Most Hated Businesses Might Surprise YouFacebook was among the companies the made this annual list.

ByStephanie Mlot

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In business, perception is everything: A single bad experience can burn a brand name and ruin a company's reputation.

So it's no surprise that well-known tech companies including Comcast, Facebook, Dish, Sprint and Charter Communications landed on a list of America's most hated businesses.

Financial news site24/7 Wall St.this weekreleaseda report identifying "12 companies hated by customers, employees and the general public." Their findings are based on consumer satisfaction surveys and worker reviews.

Comcast topped the list, boasting a "significantly worse" score than the internet and subscription TV service industry averages, according to24/7 Wall St. In J.D. Power's rating of major wireline services, the firm received the worst scores in cost to consumer, performance, billing and reliability.

Clients are understandably perturbed: The Federal Communications Commission in the fallfined Comcastfor $2.3 million over allegations the cable company charged customers for services they never authorized.

But it seems service providers can't catch a break: Dish Network came in at No. 8 with one of the lowest employee satisfaction ratings of any major company reviewed on Glassdoor. Sprint customers report the lowest customer satisfaction of any wireless telephone enterprise.

"Sprint is in the midst of a multi-year turnaround and in the past 12 months we've made substantial improvement in important metrics including customer and employee satisfaction levels," a company spokeswoman toldPCMag. "We know we have more work to do, but with an internal motto of 'Getting Better Every Day,' we will continue enhance our experience for our customers and our employees."

Fresh off its时代华纳Cable acquisition, Charter Communications, meanwhile, has one of thepoorest reputationsfor customer service in the subscription TV industry,24/7 Wall St.said.

Surprise entry Facebook landed at No. 6, thanks to recent criticism over its privacy policies andmass user data collection, not to mention the spread offake newsleading up to the U.S. presidential election.

Stephanie Mlot

Reporter at PCMag

Stephanie began as aPCMagreporter in May 2012. She moved to New York City from Frederick, Md., where she worked for four years as a multimedia reporter at the second-largest daily newspaper in Maryland. She interned at Baltimore magazine and graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (in the town of Indiana, in the state of Pennsylvania) with a degree in journalism and mass communications.

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