Lonely Planet Reviews in Melbourne, Australia Area

Pros

They give up to 32 days holiday a year on top of regular Australian holidays. They pay fairly. It is a lovely building with a free gym and on an on site cafe. Everyone you will work with is really nice.

Cons

The dark side is their treatment of women returning to work after maternity leave. There was a high chance that you would be offered a much less attractive job when you returned to work. Two examples I saw were a very experienced Project Manager given an administrative role and a senior manager given a very junior management role. When redundancies were taking place (which they frequently are) any woman on maternity was a certainty for it. If a woman asked for a part time return to work arrangement it would be entirely available, until shortly before the woman was about to return to work, at which point it would become full time only. All these strategies worked very well for Lonely Planet when reducing their costs. I'm male by the way. And left on good terms. But I would not want my wife to work there.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop treating your female employees so badly.