No Way - Anonymous employee New Home Star Employee Review

1.0
Sep 2, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Sometimes can work remote. Sometimes get free food and alcohol (because they’re big on their drinks). You won’t feel like you fit in if you’re not always getting drinks after work or at events.

Cons

Huge red flag when employees kept referring to this place as their “second family”. This might initially be perceived as a sweet sentiment but this can be a classic signal of manipulative management. You work long hours, lots of overtime and experience a lack of boundaries. The result? You spend less time with your ACTUAL family while you try to please your professional one.

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New Home Star Response
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Thank you for sharing your feedback about your employment experience. At New Home Star, we pride ourselves on our excellent company culture, so this review caught us off guard, and we are very sorry to hear that you felt excluded during your time here. Many of our employees have developed close relationships and spend time together outside work. We believe our employees deeply value these relationships and genuinely care about each other. Our leaders do not use personal relationships to manipulate our employees. We have many positions within New Home Star, some more demanding than others, but we value and respect personal time and strive to foster work-life balance. We host various events within our organization, most of which do not include alcohol. Occasionally, we host after-hours events onsite or offsite that have alcoholic beverages available for employees. We enforce a two-drink limit for these events. Based on the information you provided in your review, we urge you to reach out to humanresources@newhomestar.com with a detailed account of your experience so that we can better understand and address your concerns. Thank you again for your feedback.

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