Proceed With Caution - Retention Leaf Group Employee Review

3.0
6 Mar 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Some of the people at Leaf have been amazing, supportive and facilitate amazing professional growth opportunities. Jess Barron on the Livestrong team demonstrates good leadership - she knows the brand and is willing to stick up for what the right decision is, even when it is difficult.

Cons

STAY AWAY FROM THE EHOW TEAM! The eHow team and verticals are like riding a bike up a steep hill and leadership keeps frantically switching gears with no long term plan and all your teammates are screaming at you. It's a hostile work environment and leadership is making decisions for their own personal gain, not what is best for the company or the bottom line. They are also very deceptive about what their teams are doing and what their actual numbers are. When confronted with facts, they pick holes at everything so they don't have to acknowledge that what they are doing isn't working. The nepotism is also a problem. Meetings are like a family reunion. There are too many inexperienced managers leading teams and making decisions and there is a lot of favoritism within the departments.

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Leaf Group Response
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We appreciate you taking the time to review and acknowledge that we have some amazing supportive team members here at Leaf. We would disagree that any of our work environments are hostile as that goes against who we stand for. As for management, we are always advocating growth from our team members, across the board. Our Glint survey responses are held in high regard and are just one of the tools we use to make ourselves better.

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