Open Office Seating Was A Bad Idea - Anonymous employee Expedia Group Employee Review

4.0
6 Oct 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great work/life balance. Good benefits. I work with some great people and I look forward to coming to work every day.

Cons

Open office seating is a disaster and causes people to be way less productive with the constant distractions and interruptions of people sitting on top of each other. People come to work sick and get everyone around them sick. Company leadership has stated that managers need to be more flexible about working from home/remotely but some group VPs stubbornly refuse to allow it. Salaries, while good, are behind what other like companies in the area offer - retaining employees in an expensive housing market is going to be harder to scale if they don't re-examine compensation.

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Expedia Group Response
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Thanks for the review – we’re glad to hear that you have some great colleagues and enjoy what you do! We appreciate that space is a little tight in our current Bellevue HQ but we are moving to a much larger and modern campus in Seattle. We encourage flexible working (both formal and informal arrangements exist) and we’d encourage you to work with your manager and HR Business Partner to ascertain whether this is suitable for your role.

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Cons

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