Not a bad place to be - Anonymous employee Extra Space Storage Employee Review

4.0
1 Mar 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Generally speaking the Corporate office employees are pleasant to work with. It is probably a better environment than most companies. This is definitely the best thing about Extra Space. It is also very financially stable. Growth has created more opportunities for career growth. Company tries to be decent to its employees. Work load is usually pretty reasonable, although it can be very overwhelming at times, too.

Cons

Pay is below market. The company is definitely very conservative, which is good in some ways and bad in others. The bad part about it is Executives don't like to change things up and are behind on current market trends in regards to employees. Benefits are expensive.

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Pros

Solid schedule - 40 hours per week, not expected to be there more than that. No one looking over your shoulder constantly (unless you have a new DM, they can't seem to help it) Mostly great people to work with Local, immediate management does care and are helpful.

Cons

Very large rate increases really upset customers and that's just too bad. We are given word to tell them but it just isn't true. Putting more money in stock holder's pockets is the bottom line and it doesn't matter how much anger we have to deal with. You are absolutely expected to sell insurance to every renter. However, you must be careful because you aren't "insurance salesmen". You get a ding when you don't sell it. We are encouraged to use evasive language and rush through it so the renter thinks it's required without quite saying so. You would think this large of a corporation would have handymen available but it is so, so difficult to get the smallest repair done due to getting bids from vendors, turning them in, reminding the person you turned them in to what needs done maybe getting approval, then scheduling. By that time lights (or whatever) have been out for a month or 2. Benefits are very expensive and cover so little.

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