Pros
Discount on retail Work from home Stylists can set their own hours Decent benefits for full-time employees
Cons
Changes are happening incredibly fast, and stylists are not given time to adjust. We are still able to schedule our own hours, but it has to be within a 12 hour window and down to 15 minute increments. The flexibility is what drew many of us to the job, and those of us that couldn't adapt to this (seemingly unnecessary) change were asked to resign. This change forced out a lot of employees who style as a second job or stay-at-home parent. Even though we have to schedule ourselves so rigidly and in advance, we don't find out how many hours we are allowed to work until two days prior to the start of the workweek. As a full-timer, this doesn't affect me as much, but for part-timers it's a huge stressor. It's hard to keep yourself available when you're not guaranteed work. Now they don't offer flexibility, but require it from us. We have to clock in every three days, even if we have a 20 hour workweek. This new change is to "preserve client/stylist relationships" but they weren't thinking of client/stylist relationships when they made a change that forced half of their employees to resign. It also appears that bots are styling half of my Fix Previews now too (and I'm left doing damage control for terrible AI choices. Like sending a top made of a material that my client is ALLERGIC to). So, that's BS. Additionally, over the past year, all methods of providing feedback have been cut off and there's been zero response from higher up to the stylist outrage regarding this change. I don't expect one. Two years ago, I would have. I used to love this job. It was invaluable to me. Now, I'll happily jump ship the minute a better opportunity arises. I'm sticking around because I'm full time and I don't want to lose my health care. I also value the option of a paid maternity leave. But honestly, I am starting to feel like those benefits might go away too.