Associate Computational Biologist - Anonymous employee The Broad Institute Employee Review

Hi, this is Chelsea from Human Resources. Thank you for providing your feedback - I am glad to hear you’re happy with our benefits. I agree that they are great! To your point about onboarding, we are currently overhauling the entire onboarding experience. Our onboarding program manager is rolling out new programs and tools to provide support for new hires during their first six months. We are also developing new onboarding tools for managers to help them set new Broadies up for success. Mental wellness is also something we care a lot about across the Broad -- it’s the research focus of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Disease -- and it plays a big role in our benefits plan, support structures, and policies. We provide multiple resources to support the mental health and wellness of employees including things like free mental health consultations with our Employee Assistance Program, access to therapists via Wellness Connection from Blue Cross of MA, on-site wellness offerings (weekly meditation, yoga, massage, and fitness bootcamp), and seminars and workshops to address major life stressors including parenting, caring for aging parents, and financial planning. Please contact the BroadLife office, broadlife@broadinstitute.org, if you have more specific feedback that could be helpful to our community, and absolutely reach out if we can help you as an individual -- we don’t want to fall short. I would also be happy to continue the conversation regarding any additional feedback you may have. Please reach out to me at cbodenstab@broadinstitute.org.