Company Went Downhill After Sale - Local Editor Patch Employee Review

1.0
Jul 7, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Working remotely, flexible hours, equipment provided.

Cons

Patch was a good place to work when it was owned by AOL. After the new owner (Hale Global) took over, journalism and original content was mostly eliminated in favor of viral aggregated content, the workload increased with so few employees being left, and the company's benefits were terrible. It's truly a company where employees are treated like robots, and it's all about quantity versus quality now, and ethics are an afterthought.

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The dates on these reviews are bogus. This review is from the first half of 2014, and not current. We did have a multi-month fling with viral content. Like all affairs, I suppose, it seemed fun and exhilarating at the time. Our readers hated it, however. Chastened and ashamed, we stopped viral in mid 2014 and doubled down on local. The readers appreciated it and traffic doubled.

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