Screen Rant reviews about "staff"

- minimal PTO for senior staff - changes not communication quickly

Each article is more work than anyone realizes. The editors have different preferences which can be confusing and frustrating when pitching and submitting finished work. Sometimes they don't even really do full revisions (aka editing) but make the writer do it, on top of finding the right in-text links, buying and using Grammarly, and doing all of the photo editings. This takes hours, and you get a flat rate of 15 an article. In reality, it feels much less on the hour. If you do enough articles you get bonuses which is okay, but it's also really hard to achieve these bonuses seeing that even if you to take this on full time, there's no guarantee you can realistically make the goals and get your bonus in a reasonable amount of time. They often ask for revisions, changing entries altogether, even changing the subjects of the articles altogether, and they don't always check for duplicates. The work is so much more than it seems and you get paid so little. It's frustrating and while you can learn to get better, sometimes it feels like they don't want you to be earning the bonuses (aka--a livable wage). How it works is you take on or pitch topics--they can't seem to look through the pitches fast enough. Makes me wonder if they do this on purpose so people aren't able to do as many articles at a time (especially considering a lot of the pitches don't even go through). Don't work for this place unless you're stuck somewhere and really, really, really need the money and the credit for having worked for this company. At least, don't be a list writer.

The pay could be higher and benefits should be offered to full time employees such as editors and staff writers.

Inconsistent advice from different editors, lots of necessary research for what is $15-25 (depending on the range amount of articles completed) per article, even though some articles can take literally several hours of research to do. Plus you have to do your own links and photo formats. It can be very overwhelming to take so much time for so little pay and content.