Toxic Work Enviroment - Vice President Edelman Employee Review

1.0
Mar 1, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

• Talented people • The agency is doing ntegrated Communications

Cons

• Toxic work culture • Highly competitive environment but even to the point where offices are actively fighting each other for revenue, which upper management seems to like. • But most concerning to me was how I saw men being treated differently than women in the workplace and the highly inappropriate behavior I saw of senior men at Edelman and their relationships with women at various levels. One even bragged that HR keeps asking him to stop having inappropriate relationships with junior staff but he has an addiction similar to his surfing addiction. Unfortunately, HR isn't really empowered to take the necessary action one would hope to see in today's workplace so this only continues. It's shocking that Edelman didn't get caught up in the #MeToo movement.

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Pros

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Cons

Very limited opportunities for growth. During my time they reduced promotions to only once a year, and made many excuses for promoting as few people as possible (despite becoming the first "$1B" agency at that time). Morale was extremely low. People were forced to come into an office with nobody they actually worked with. Common to be passed from manager to manager. At one point I had 6+ managers within a 10-month span.

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