The biggest issue at Learning House stems from the fact that they were purchased by an investment company about 5 years ago. My speculation is that this company seems to be applying tremendous pressure to Learning House to produce income for it's stockholders.
This means that almost everything is tracked, measured, and cut down to the bone. Curriculum, at least at the time of my departure, was required to track all of their activities down to the 15 minute increment. I literally spent an hour a day on average tracking my time or attending meetings about time tracking.
Management is in need of leadership training. Instead they were all given Six Sigma training. I've personally experienced being reprimanded for a slew of unreasonable things and once you've gotten on the managers radar for whatever reason your completely written off for eternity. It's not unheard of for managers to yell at employees and make them cry or have nervous breakdowns. This typically happens on a weekly basis. In my tour at Learning House I had no less than 5 managers, had my job title changed(without any input from me) 3 times, and been made to move seats(again with no input) 5 times all in about 4 years.
It is a horrible, soul sucking environment. All the employees I talked to that have been there for more than 6 months are completely burned out and demoralized due to low pay, high (and continually growing) workloads, and dealing with trivial nonsense.
There is a huge push to build a company culture. It's all garbage. 100% lip service. Management says they care about the employees while showing them that they don't. A culture program at work is nonsense. It's an attempt for your employer to tell you how you should feel at work rather than actively promote a positive work environment.
Employees are highly pressured and management has said will eventually be required to take a multiweek course called "Unstoppable" which requires the employee to read self-help, motivational books. Much of this subject matter is blatantly sexist and contains themes such as "how to be a man's man!" They are also required to blog and have their blogs critiqued by other participants of the class to help them view things more the company way. It's a brainwashing program. Sorry guys but it is. You're trying to build a cult. This seems to be an attempt to lower attrition (which in my opinion is high).
To cap all this off the pay is extremely low. It seems that the average employee in curriculum (most with Masters in Education mind you) make between 35k and 40k. I highly recommend not working here.
