Former Employee - Anonymous employee rePurpose Global Employee Review

Thank you for your feedback and frank observations. We are taking the necessary steps to build a better work culture at rePurpose and we strive towards being a great place to work for every employee and stakeholder partnering with us. On your point on less pay - In the quest to build an all-star team, we recognize the importance of offering competitive remuneration and compensation to all team members. We strive to maintain remuneration levels at rePurpose Global at or above par with the industry. We are actively trying to break the perception that to work in the impact and sustainability sector, one has to take a “discount” from “traditional” corporate jobs. We’d love to have a conversation with you regarding why you thought our offered compensation structures were not suitable for you. On your point on alignment and coordination- As an early-stage startup we understand that in the initial days it could have seemed like there was no coordination or alignment between the leadership team. We have taken concrete steps as a venture to be more aligned, we have recognized that being in alignment as a team is absolutely essential for the success of the venture. We have incorporated Notion, a powerful tool that keeps the venture moving in the right direction. We have brought on board a venture coach whose primary job is to bring alignment and coordination between the leadership and the rest of the employees. On your point on retention - We would like to respectfully push back on your observation by sharing our perspective. We have learned firsthand how effort-intensive the hiring, recruitment, and onboarding process can be. In light of this, it is absolutely critical for us to work as hard as we can to retain our team members and foster a sense of belonging - it is in our interest to do so, as not only does it save us the time and effort in embarking on frequent recruitment cycles, but more importantly, because it allows for the long term compounding of knowledge, organizational understanding, and personal rapport, to ultimately enable us to improve our work overtime. There is honestly no reason for us to let go of quality employees we have painstakingly recruited. Hiring consumes a large amount of the organization’s time and the intention has always been to reduce the time spent on hiring and instead focus that time on capacity building of all team members. To this end, we have enacted several policies that can help build the long term knowledge and skill base of our team members, such as: - “weekly wisdom” calls to share learnings amongst the team - curating a comprehensive “Onboarding Learning Program” with over 50 hours of reading and learning material on topics ranging from circular economy and plastic pollution to fostering creativity and productivity. - initiating a learning and development budget for all team members to pursue learning and certifications outside of work, paid for by rePurpose. However, as an early-stage sustainability social enterprise with audacious goals, we do believe it is important for us to have a laser focus on ensuring that there is an ideal fit between our organization and any new candidate we recruit. To this end, we deliberately structure our recruitment process to explicitly test how a candidate would actually apply their skill sets to the unique problems that are very specific to rePurpose (through assignments-based interviews as opposed to “behavioral” questions that we don’t think shed much light on fit) , and test how they would actually approach working with our existing team with a paid “exploration project”. The exploration project is an extension of the recruitment process wherein any candidate that has moved past the “final interview” round, moves into a 1-2 week period where we invite them to work with us on a self-contained, paid project to assess their fit by actually working together with them and having them collaborate with internal team members. We have found this to be immensely beneficial to both parties as each gets a sense of what working together is really like. Conversely, if there is a less-than-ideal fit, we believe that it is better to be upfront about this right at the outset, as opposed to both parties moving into a sub-optimal employment relationship which would not be tenable in the long run for either the applicant or rePurpose Global. On your point on making illegal profits - We are sure and certain we don’t make illegal profits. We’d love to have a conversation with you regarding why you think we make illegal profits.