Employees are exhausted - Anonymous employee Outside Employee Review

I’ll echo the other honest reviews I’ve read here. Many of the recent positive reviews do not seem sincere, and I assume members of upper management wrote some or all to get the company’s score higher. Those that have been here longer than a year have been through the wringer. Between countless acquisitions, restructure after restructure, process change after process change, position reshuffling, false promises of promotions and raises, people leaving and not getting replaced, and so much more, we're tired. WE ARE EXHAUSTED. There’s been high turnover the last several months and many/most of those positions have not been filled, causing employees who are already over their capacity to have even more work dumped on them. The burnout rate is high and leadership's excuses for not backfilling are not acceptable. If they can't afford to backfill positions, they should take another look at the new, gigantic, (mostly) empty office in Boulder first. Seems like that rent could have paid the salaries of employees we desperately need. Leadership often asks for our opinions and our feedback but I have yet to see much, if anything, change. Why ask for feedback if you're going to ignore it? Along the way, Outside, Inc. became a wannabe tech startup (but with 600+ employees), although none of us are from tech companies or ever agreed to work for one. We are all from the various outdoor media brands that have been gobbled up by this monopoly, with a CEO that thinks he’s “one of us” and approachable, yet regularly refers to the company as the “Amazon Prime of the outdoor industry.” Only people above a certain tax bracket would view that as a positive thing. The latest big buzzy announcement from leadership is an NFT marketplace that claims to "help people get outside." Once this announcement was posted on social media, internet commenters did their job and ripped it apart. We’ll have to see how this will all be addressed, or more likely ignored, during this rollout. I don't know what the future holds for NFT's and Outside Inc, but it's definitely a strange attempt at a mash up. Unlimited PTO is an amazing concept, but only if we could actually use it. All the work has to get done (and FAST) and the headcount is lagging badly, which means there is no one to pick up your tasks if you're out. You're guilt-tripped into working late, on weekends, on vacations, during your supposed unlimited PTO. Of course everyone should set the boundaries they are personally comfortable with, but after a while, you get worn down and you start to give in. Working at a company called Outside, Inc would lead most to believe we "get outside" a lot. My response to this is to re-read the paragraph above about unlimited PTO.