Overworked and Underpaid - Senior Strategy Manager Heartbeat Employee Review

2.0
4 May 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Genuine and authentic people in the company.

Cons

-12 to 14 hour workdays for months on end are common. There is zero work-life balance. -Even though Heartbeat is a part of Publicis, it still operates as a startup that does not know what it is doing, has no "heartbeat way of marketing or strategy development", and as a result there is no training or onboarding for new hires or clear standard for what good looks like. Managers are too overwhelmed by their own workload to support direct reports. -Salary and benefits are very low when compared to other agencies and corporate roles.

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Heartbeat Response
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Thank you for the feedback and the clear suggestions. As the Heartbeat community continues to grow in this now-familiar WFH world, we invest more time & attention to the on-boarding of new community members than ever before. From HR orientations to chats with Nadine & I, from Heartbeat 101 to our whole series of “Beat Basics,” we thought much more of a foundation for a smooth and comprehensive experience was in place. That said, clearly that sounds inconsistent with the experience you had, so we need to determine if it was the curriculum or your opportunity to participate in it that went awry — and your feedback is helpful in triggering that investigation, so thank you. Work-life balance is also a topic very dear to us. Although there are inevitable ebbs and flows to the work we do, we strongly and consistently urge our community to pay themselves back—or forward—to help reestablish balance. We will not support any situation where an out-of-balance issue is sustained indefinitely. In addition to responding to folks who vocalize such a situation, we work hard to proactively identify people who might be suffering silently — so we are especially troubled that neither approach was successful with you. We must do better. We hope you will find the right environment for your talents and find not only balance, but joy. - James and Nadine, Heartbeat Co-Presidents

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