Everything needs work - Anonymous employee Stephen Thomas Employee Review

Fun and welcoming coworkers. Some really great people work here. Most of them are passionate about making a difference and care about the charities that they work with. They seem to really care about employee engagement. Lots of events.

At times obvious favouritism. Some rigid and dated tech policies. For some reason, staff committee budgets were all shared and ultimately often eaten up by the Christmas party. In some cases, lower-level staff had to "manage up" because their managers didn't action tasks unless directly asked or reminded. There have been instances where projects didn't move forward while lower-level staff were away. Isn't it the managers' responsibility to ensure projects proceed? There were lots of instances of unchecked unconscious bias/microaggressions, ableism, and expectations of emotional labour from marginalized people -- but maybe it's better now?

Great people, fun team building activities, central location, decent vacation time. Probably a good place to work if you manage to get a director role but not great for junior or mid-level employees.

Low pay that isn't competitive in the non-profit or for-profit sector, long hours (heavy workload), little opportunity for title growth but still expected to take on responsibilities above pay grade, negativity in regards to people moving on to new opportunities, inconsistent policies around promotions, favouritism, lacking in diversity, culture of distrust and paranoia about workers' intentions and/or potential to be a "flight risk" (many junior staffers were told not to take lunches together anymore because it made senior management uncomfortable), dishonesty about annual bonus amount with new hires, ableist attitude about employees using sick time (not rewarding strong employees simply because of amount of sick time used), arrogant attitude that keeps them from leveling up as an agency and employer.