Myplanet Reviews

Thank-you for taking the time to write this review. Our office(s) have a lot going for them. Glad that they have been a positive in your experience at Myplanet. We have a lot of perks, my favourite being the people I get to work with each day. I want to set a reasonable expectation that our vacation, sick and paid training time are generous but not unlimited. We work with each Myplaneteer as best we can to match up the appropriate work-life balance for their specific needs. Happy to report that our attrition is less than industry norm, though in 2014 we did have some of our new functions experience higher-than-average turnover as they established themselves. I'd love for you to reach out to me jason (et) myplanet.com to understand where is has been difficult to book time with myself, our leadership or key specialists within the company. Our job is to support our teams, and I want to ensure we improve on this front. While my time is increasingly consumed by travel to visit our clients, partners and offices I still ensure availability in group sessions such as Morning Coffee, Know Your Company and Company Retro. Please let me know where we can do better.

Thanks for writing this! It’s great to hear that you’re enjoying the people and our work from home flexibility. We try to remain as flexible as possible to meet employees needs, especially because you're right: the expanding team and work has led to some “growing pains” around the Toronto office. In case you didn't know, we've secured additional space on a separate floor but some issues that were out of our control delayed the availability of that space for longer than we'd hoped for. The good news is, it's almost ready! And once it is, we'll be able to move into phase 2 of our renovations, where we'll be creating new meeting room spaces that should, alongside the noise cancelling headphone subsidy for delivery team members, help alleviate some of the challenges we know folks have been facing on that front. Around your other points, we take a lot of pride in an employee's performance and professional development so we are sorry to hear you're feeling this way. Our goal is for all Myplaneteers to be acknowledged for their hard work. We also hold integrity and transparency in the highest regard. What you’ve outlined has me concerned so if you are open to it, I would like nothing more than to hear you out and gather your feedback. You can also talk to Human Resources, or use one of our anonymous channels, if you feel more comfortable doing so. I encourage you to leverage one of these options as there is always opportunity for improvement in any organization and we want our team to share a vision of how to do that.

"Nothing negative keeping me up at night!" Well that's a relief! We'd hate to be the cause of lost sleep. But kidding aside, it's great to hear you've had such a positive start to your time at Myplanet. We'll keep working to keep those channels of communication open so that if ever you do feel you've got something worth losing sleep over, you'll know you can share it with the team and we can work to solve it instead of the lying-awake-at-night alternative.

We're so glad you called out being responsible for your own work and the need to take initiative to tackle your own learning, because that's such a key element to how we do business. Of course every team member should know they can rely on each other to help out when needed and feel comfortable asking question— we never want anyone to feel they can't turn to someone for advice or assistance. But ultimately we really do believe in autonomy over activities and accountability over outcomes (we've even written about on our blog: https://medium.com/myplanet-musings/autonomy-for-activities-accountability-over-outcomes-fa4b5e7d159b). That means there is a lot of opportunity to forge one's own path, but also that it's up to the individual to do so. It's something that has worked well for us through the years and suits our lean, agile work style, but it's not always an easy thing to adapt to for folks, especially if they're not used to it. Definitely in those first few weeks it can feel overwhelming, but hopefully you've settled into things now and are feeling more comfortable charting your own course (and if not, please don't hesitate to reach out to colleagues— we're better when we work together to solve problems!).