Well-meaning but deeply flawed organization - Anonymous employee Grist Employee Review

2.0
Mar 11, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

There's great flexibility in terms of hours and working remotely as needed, which helps with work-life balance. Many of the staffers are talented and genuinely nice people.

Cons

The leadership is full of white men and they talk about diversity and equality but don't walk the walk. Women are not treated or paid equally with men. People of color often don't feel supported and the few that are hired don't tend to stick around long. The leadership flails about constantly, having endless meetings and discussions about mission and vision, and the game plan shifts dramatically every year or even every few months. The leadership tends to micromanage. Pay is great for the people at the very top (and for outside consultants) and poor for everyone else. The founder makes snap judgments about employees and if he doesn't like them he tries to make them unhappy enough that they'll quit or he outright fires them or lays them off. That's just one of many factors leading to tons of turnover.

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5.0
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Pros

Management genuinely cares about employees and about the work and its impact. Management is also relatively supportive of the Union. There are opportunities to grow, and at least some genuine resources put toward DEIJ. It's possible to work from a variety of states, and there are accommodations/flexibility around work schedule. Fairly well funded for a nonprofit newsroom, so there's more job stability than at many other newsrooms, and the benefits are fairly good.

Cons

The team is distributed throughout the country, so it can be harder to develop relationships with coworkers and to develop professionally in certain ways.

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