Planned Parenthood Employee Reviews about "leadership"

Pros

There is decent pay and benefits.

Cons

Horrific culture and work environment. Questionable leadership and direction of organization is not positive.

Pros

Good benefits. A great mission. Excellent but unappreciated health center staff.

Cons

Leadership is horrible, rude, and indecisive they claim to be about diversity and inclusion while doing the bare minimum and still ignoring the complaints and concerns of minorities. Will be quick to blame you for a problem. Tells employees there's no money for paying fair wages while leadership is making $150K plus. Absolutely terrible work life balance despite what they say. They expect you to dedicate your life to them while they give you nothing in return. Most minorities leave due to a lack of fair wages, support, and broken promises from leadership. Leadership is rude and they will find some way to retaliate if you stand up for yourself. Hectic work environment and leadership that expects better results yet gives minimal support and worthless recognition. It seems that most Planned Parenthood offices could use a serious leadership overhaul, they claim they are trying to improve things but they pretend everything is perfect. If you're not a white woman with clout, don't work here, go somewhere that'll truly support you instead. This place is a revolving door.

Pros

The people/colleagues who care, really care and work very hard. There is some flexibility within administrative jobs around hybrid/WFH schedules. After 3.5 years here, it seems like management is finally beginning to take peoples' concerns about DEI work seriously. People value clear communication and are willing to listen.

Cons

The bureaucracy makes it hard to get things done. As I mentioned in the 'pros' section, the executive team has begun to listen to serious concerns other employees have, however the speed at which anything can change is difficult to handle. There is a pretty tense divide between the executive leadership and the rest of the employees. Its an intense place to work, fast-paced with a lot of tight deadlines. It can feel very demanding.

Pros

Being employed Meet some wonderful people

Cons

No room for growth Disorganized High turn over rate, I never had the same boss for more than a yea Unrealistic expectations of amount of patients to been seen Leadership is not interested in clinical staff feedback

Pros

The mission to provide reproductive care to our patients. Hard working and passionate teams on the clinic frontlines that stay and walk the mission for the right reasons.

Cons

Patient services leadership uses the mission and the frontline to manage internal & external agendas while frontline clinic teams walk it which has created a toxic culture and disengagement in all clinics. Almost all former leadership in patient services left. Very scary times in the upper leadership right now and many colleagues including myself are damaged and torn to get out too. The toxic has reached the frontlines. Succession and DEIB work fell flat because fill in leaders don’t have the skills to lead, especially thru total fall of patient services and this has rendered words and promises of change resulting in no change action. It’s an unhealthy place in clinic/patient services side of things.

Pros

I used to work at the NYC affiliate and know people who still work there who say it’s changed for the better under new leadership.

Cons

There’s still room to grow.

Pros

Hard working front line staff who care about patients. Great mission.

Cons

Toxic working environment. Poor communication between senior staff and the rest of the organization. Lack of transparency. Majority of leadership is white and pretends to care about anti-racist work. Emotional and verbally abusive bosses.

Pros

Fair salary. Reasonable opportunity. Great benefits.

Cons

Leadership is unwilling to take a step back and look at themselves and the big picture.

Pros

The greatest benefit gained from working at PPGP was the connections and relationships I made with front line staff. The organizers, educators, and clinic staff are by far the most dedicated, hard working, bright, empathetic, caring, self aware, and powerful leaders I've ever had the privilege of working alongside. Other than that, through trial by fire, I was grateful to eventually learn that PPGP is NOT an organization that should be representative of what true reproductive justice advocacy should look like.

Cons

Inequitable pay structures; the CEO made a quarter of a million dollars while front line staff often made nearly poverty level wages. Classism was often upheld by promoting folks into leadership with little to no leadership experience but with advanced academic backgrounds. Leadership often employed bullying and emotional manipulation/abuse. The only gender and race diversity that exists is among front line staff who are coincidentally paid the least. The organization as a whole continuously failed to further the community engagement and allyship that is essential to reproductive justice activism. Overall, this organization taught me what a repro organization does NOT look like.

Pros

promotes a woman's right to choose, committed to providing services to all women regardless of income.

Cons

Senior Management team frequently changes Management Team letting them know that they want change in the organization and welcome their input. If management doesn't propose what Senior Leadership team wants to hear then not considered a productive and valued employee.