Anti-Woman Employer - Anonymous employee Ashley Furniture Employee Review

There are so many things about Ashley that are super problematic, it is hard to be exhaustive in this space. From your first contact with the brand as an employee, you are barraged with anti-worker sentiment. Ashley does not care for nor support its employees. I will demonstrate that more explicitly throughout the remainder of this review. You are given ten days of PTO—inclusive of sick days. You receive six holidays + your birthday. In total, you only have 15 days off for the whole year. This does not change as you rise in the company, nor can you negotiate for more. Pay is incredibly low. You are limited to a 10% raise per promotion. If you accelerate too quickly, you will not be compensated adequately. But don’t worry, Ashley also likes to tie those promotions in with your annual cost of living increase! It’s a great cost saving measure for the business. They will also refuse to show you your promotion package. Which also takes forever to happen because the CEO has to hand sign and approve every single promotion/raise. Remember, there is no negotiating. Ashley’s stance is that we should feel lucky to get anything at all. The CEO is a complete narcissist. He insists on personally handing out bonuses. The leadership team will instruct everyone to clap super loud for him as he enters a room. He then goes to shake everyone’s hand personally as he passes them their bonus. Don’t worry though, as he says, “he’s already had COVID.” We have had a mass exodus of people in the last several months. When asked about it, leadership’s position was that “workers don’t actually know what they want, that the leadership team knows better.” Here’s the thing, you should listen to your employees—you don’t in fact know what is best for them. The environment is an old boys club. Incompetent men get put in positions they are unqualified for and have no business being in. HR held a series of focus groups to identify employee needs. The biggest piece of feedback was around a lack of maternity leave (an absolute disgrace for a billion dollar company). Women used to receive 12 weeks of leave at 60% pay through short term disability. At the beginning of the year, they touted a new 6-week fully paid maternity leave. They never clarified that you would no longer receive an additional six weeks at 60% pay through short term disability buy up coverage. Several women found out they would only have 6 weeks once they were already on leave, because women, and particularly vulnerable women, don’t matter at Ashley! When confronted, the official response was that these women should be lucky to have gotten the six weeks at all. What’s worse is there are pregnant people at work today who still have not been informed they will only have six weeks of leave. The CEO pretends to care about investing in initiatives, but when push comes to shove, he will nickel and dime his way into a half-baked product and blame everyone else for the terrible result.