No surprise Esplanade is $5mil in debt - Anonymous employee Esplanade Employee Review

For perspective, this is the 10th consecutive negative review for Esplanade on Glassdoor. There are three thousand programmes a year = everyone is overworked and underpaid. Bureaucratic and mundane, but pretends to be creative. A lot of workflows, policies and practices just don’t make sense. They are outdated and messy. People are resistant to change and lack the capacity to address them. No guidance, it’s a “figure it out on your own” environment. A lot of pushback when you try to implement something different. CEO cried in front of the entire organisation when employee engagement survey requested for 2 days of WFH (they only gave 1). CEO also makes a lot of tone deaf comments such as we have to work for “passion, not money”. She is very out of touch with basic facets of people’s roles and lacks the ability to follow through with her own suggestions to improve workflows. Exploitative, no time off for working overtime if you don’t hit the hours. People are perpetually exhausted. Low base, increments are minimal. Environment is hierarchal and ageist, offering little or no progression. They reward the ones who have been around longer rather than who is competent. Endless piles of urgent work create an anxious environment. People lack professionalism when communicating. Workplace bullying is a norm. Many in need of serious anger management. High attrition rate, low morale. Nobody even dares to reveal their job function when posting these reviews because so many employees monitor this page and gossip about it.