Not treated like a human - Anonymous employee Fast Company Employee Review

...this place burns through every employee they have in marketing/sales. For a publication focused on people, the treatment of employees is abysmal. I witnessed multiple breakdowns due to stress and chronic understaffing/mismanagement and saw a nearly complete turnover in my year there. Procedures (or lack thereof) are steps behind what a truly innovative place would be. When times are stressful or challenges arise (which happened often are due to mismanagement and understaffing), people point fingers to place blame on someone else and use passive aggression rather than coming together as a team to be constructive, work together, and solve problems. Managers would rather keep people in the dark to hold onto their own positions, which means you're always operating without crucial information. It felt like a caste system, with management treated like royalty while lower-titled employees promised raises and promotions that never materialized, dangled like a carrot on a stick if they just did one more trick to earn their keep. It was painful to watch. People are treated as 100% expendable. It's expected, and that callous disregard that ended up making me severely ill from stress. When I returned, I was punished for that. When I did leave, HR screwed up reporting to all of my benefits, so it took an extra month to receive unemployment and my affordable health care coverage was revoked at a critical time. I'd already exhausted my savings paying for medical bills from the aforementioned work stress-induced medical issues, so I was left without a way to pay rent and no real medical coverage I could afford. When I contacted HR to try desperately to resolve this, I was ignored.