Massage Envy reviews

3.1

38% would recommend to a friend

(7,406 total reviews)
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Todd Schrader

42% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

Massage Envy has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 7,406 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Massage Envy employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Personal Consumer Services industry (3.6 stars).

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7K reviews
2.0
Feb 10, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The place is well organized and usually most days go by very smoothly. On the off chance that someone calls out or there is a major issue they are usually pretty good about covering sessions and getting extra help. Schedules are also pretty flexible and the job itself is a nice balance of keeping you busy without overwhelming you.

Cons

The "Wellness Program Sales." If you want to work at a company where you are evaluated based on how hard you work and how well you do your job, look somewhere else. Each Front Desk Associate is evaluated almost entirely on how many memberships you sell each month. The problem is there is little to nothing you can do to influence your membership numbers. You are assigned guests in order at the start of each day, you have specific questions you have to ask them, and then you have to sell them a membership with a script that you are REQUIRED to say WORD FOR WORD, but when they don't sign up it is your fault. Basically your sales numbers are going to be determined almost entirely by luck of the draw and they are the biggest part of your evaluation. This causes the turnover rate for FDAs to be extremely high because people would rather quit than get fired over poor numbers they can't control and there is almost NO CHANCE that you will ever get promoted. Almost all managers are hired from the outside.

2.0
Jun 18, 2015

Massage End-vy

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Free monthly massages, discounted Murad product, 401k, disability, medical, dental, vision benefits, paid vacation and sick time, occasional team outings, monetary Christmas bonus, extra day off for your birthday or work anniversary.

Cons

All comments below apply to the corporate office: Employee base salaries are well below market averages for the same job with a specified level of experience. New ownership group and replacement of most of the VP-C level staff has severely damaged the company culture. Over 50% turnover in less than a two-year period (less than 20% were terminations), and another 25% of the employees are seeking employment elsewhere. Workplace has become very misogynistic. Strong, intelligent women who have no problem speaking their minds need not apply. No career path - once you're at Director level, you are capped out, and have to leave the company if you want to grow and move up. Company is very profit over people focused now. Almost all departments horribly understaffed for the amount of workload they have to carry.

1.0
Oct 16, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* Provides immediate employment for CMTs out of school with 500 hours. * Raises the minimum standard of education in California. * Sets therapeutic massage standards promoting positive public opinion of massage.

Cons

* "Cheapens" massage as a commodity by lowering cost to just $39/hr for members. * Negatively impacts the massage profession throughout the community by forcing other therapists to lower their rates to be competitive. This in turn forwards in the public mind that massage therapy is not as valuable as it really is. * Doesn't pay therapists enough to provide a decent living for a family on their income alone. * No medical benefits. * No vacation pay. * No overtime pay. * Will fire therapists needing to file Work Comp to avoid increased State fees. * Will fire therapists at senior pay and hire new therapists at beginner pay to improve profit margin. * Will create false stories of therapist misconduct to avoid paying increased UI rate when firing therapists. * Will sue therapists if clients follow therapist. * Most owners are not massage therapists and have no sense or sensitivity for providing a work environment that supports the special needs of their therapists. * The single greatest stressor for clients is dealing with membership contract issues. * The 2nd greatest stressor for clients is dealing with inept, poorly trained front desk staff which has a high turn-over rate. * Puts too much pressure on front desk staff, and in some cases, massage therapists, to meet sale/membership quotas or suffer penalties including termination rather than reinforce performance positively. This takes away from the calm, healing atmosphere that should be promoted in environments like massage clients should have. * Doesn't pay front desk staff and therapists enough to have pride and commitment in working for Massage Envy. * Doesn't compensate front desk staff for the amount of stress and list of duties they're subjected to. * Forbids clients from tipping therapists directly, and instead, requires them to give front desk staff tips. Front desk staff are paid so little they have too much motive to not try to pocket tips, and there's no effective system in place to prevent that. Often times front desk staff are alone up front, and know where to get out of camera view, so they can pocket tips. This has lead to therapists mistrusting front desk staff, suspicion, tension, and even promotes a hostile work environment between therapists and front desk staff.

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