Good People, A Lot of Transition - Anonymous employee GLSEN Employee Review

5.0
Jan 6, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Everyone I have met is kind, passionate, and truly cares about one other and the cause. The team I am a part of is really collaborative, and I feel like people on our team genuinely care about me as a person, not just as an employee. My knowledge and voice are taken seriously, and my management and executive leadership trust me to make decisions and treat me as an expert in my industry. There's generous time off, good pay, and leadership makes sure to stress the importance of work/life balance. There is a lot of change and transition, but that makes me hopeful and excited for career growth in the future.

Cons

As mentioned above, there is a lot of change and transition--which can be good, but is also opportunity for the company. Many things, like overall strategies or company goals, are currently in flux. The ambiguity can be difficult to handle if you're used to structure and specific guidelines. It is a smaller staff and I think there is an opportunity for the company to grow and hire more as a whole.

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1.0
Feb 2, 2026
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Pros

great work life balance and decent pay

Cons

this job was great until the org needed to navigate a fiscal cliff. a year after those layoffs, I'm still left wondering why the staff was handled the way they were. money issues are real, to be sure, but everything could have been handled far more humanely. the only thing that seems to make sense of the actions that followed was that senior leadership was devoid of any strategy for how to move forward and decided to spend their efforts preserving their own reputations. prior to the layoffs, it was a decent place to work if you could keep your head down and avoid getting caught up in the usually office politics of ego. can't really speak to what it might be like post-layoffs.

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GLSEN Response
3mo
We’re very sorry to hear that your experience working at GLSEN wasn’t reflective of the work environment we strive to achieve. Layoffs due to financial constraints are never easy. As a nonprofit, we are subject to what the donor/funding landscape holds and as you know, we are living in a volatile and unfriendly political landscape that unfortunately created a situation that was untenable.
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