Lands' End reviews

This review is from an individual with a degree in management and soon to have 35+ years in the workforce. I have worked for Lands' end for 10+ years and can say that this review is my personal opinion and beliefs about this company based on my personal experiences. it is my opinion that this company is an unhealthy place to work with a truly toxic work environment. This company is plagued with problems which include the following: a lack of ethics and values in both its management and a great many of its workers, backstabbing, brown-nosing , favoritism by management, dishonest activities by workers and so called "leaders". This company has gone out of its way to ensure that employees receive as little as possible for working for this company. The company revised its work week making Saturday the first day of the week so it could avoid paying overtime to hundreds of employees who work for its Lebo division. Workers in this division are mandated to work up to 50 plus hours per week from July through January and do not get overtime for all the weekends they work. Employees' benefits in many other ways have been severely downgraded by this company. Employees' benefitted hours have been prorated in favor of the company with extraordinary high limits set to earn a full days pay for vacation, personal time, and holidays. They even hold hours they send you home against the calculations they use to determine your benefits. Schedules are posted 3 days or less before you may have to work and you are supposed to have requests in for time off at least a week or more ahead. The scheduling practices used allow for no chance of work life balance. Vacation requests are quite often held until days before the time requested time off before being approved or denied. Employees in the Lebo division are not allowed to take vacation during the company's busy time from July through January. Once again providing no work life balance employees severely burn out and many get sick during this period. Management does not listen to the concerns and ideas of the employees and treat them like something owned by the company showing little respect or concern for them. This company does not even provide their workers with the basic things that they need to do their jobs. Workers do not have qualified management or the equipment they need to do their job such as carts to put completed work on , hoops to complete work and much more. Equipment is not properly maintained or replaced when needed up to the point that workers may have been possibly injured due to this. Money is the motivator for this company above everything else. Workers who have worked for this company for 30 years or more are earning less than $15 per hour and are maxed out. This is while the Ceo earned more than 4 million dollars in compensation acccording to public reports. This company has a tremendous amount of bloat in the company, in the number of executives it has and it continues to add more while not hiring more workers and paying them better as well as setting more realistic expectations for workers. Workers are expected to make unattainable quotas doing very physically demanding work and work extremely long hours at the demands of the company. Workers in this company suffer from low morale due to being grossly underappreciated, pushed to meet unrealistic rates, suffering from low pay and provided no chance for growth or work life balance.