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3.4

54% would recommend to a friend

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Jeff Allen

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50% positive business outlook

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Reviews about "Management"

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1.0
Aug 1, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

the people working there are nice

Cons

A lack of work-life balance is so normalized that it is just a joke among employees. The director even told a story of how he woke up in the middle of the night worried he didn't complete work so he logged on. If you take PTO you need to do an insane amount of work leading up to it and are drowning in work when you get back to the point it is just not worth taking PTO. Most people will end up working during their PTO and management tries to do the right thing and say "stop working" but with the culture in place it is just impossible. Getting messages in the middle of the night or even the middle of the night on weekends are completely normal

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The work/life balance and mental health of our staff is a high priority at OuterBox. Our expectation for production staff is to capture 6 billable hours per day, leaving 2 for administration activities or non-billable meetings. We encourage everyone to reach out to their Manager or Director for relief and/or guidace if they're struggling maintaining this expectation.
5.0
May 9, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The work loads are well balanced, with people expected to perform their best but no one overloaded with too many tasks. The staff is very supportive across the company, with everyone willing to help out coworkers. I believe my supervisor is genuinely interested in my well being and in helping me the best possible worker.

Cons

The healthcare insurance could be better.

1.0
Mar 1, 2023

Fake and Frat Bro Culture

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Wide range of clients to learn from. Great place to get skills for a better job afterwards. If you are a man, you'll succeed here, but only if you don't mind stepping on toes and stabbing backs along the way.

Cons

Management has no clue how to successfully manage people or run an actual business. Men are given way more opportunities than women, and men are paid more for doing less. No diversity at all. They are never properly staffed and keep taking clients even when they have nobody to work on them. You will be exhausted if you work here from being overloaded with clients, underpaid, underappreciated, and given no help at all. If you are interviewing literally anywhere else, focus on those places instead. The other negative reviews are spot on. Management has tried to improve things, but they clearly have no idea what they are doing. They gain clients faster than they lose them, which makes it seem like they are a successful and growing company. No. Management is just working people to their breaking point in order to increase their revenue. They don't have to fire people when they lose a client because they will just give strategists two clients to replace the one they lost. Clients and revenue go up, but so do strategist stress levels and employee turnover. It is almost like they have been accidentally successful for 20 years on the backs of underappreciated people. As a woman, you won't be given leadership opportunity unless you threaten to quit. In general, you won't be given a meaningful raise unless you threaten to quit or unless someone else quit and they are afraid others might as well.

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