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Bellwether Housing Reviews

3.4

57% would recommend to a friend

(43 total reviews)
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Susan Boyd

73% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Bellwether Housing has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 43 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Bellwether Housing employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Non-profit and NGO industry (3.7 stars).

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43 reviews
1.0
26 Jan 2023
Recommend
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Pros

You won't find any pros

Cons

How embarrassing and shameful Bellwether

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Bellwether Housing Response
3y
Bellwether Housing takes claims of discrimination and racism seriously and will not tolerate discriminatory behavior in our workplace. We encourage any employee with concerns about racist or discriminative behavior to report it to any member of management or Human Resources. Bellwether also utilizes an anonymous complaint hotline for employees to report such complaints anonymously.
2.0
6 May 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Ability for flexible start times

Cons

I'm not entirely sure what happened..... maybe it was like a frog boiling in water slowly, but one day you wake up and realize this company is terrible. There are unrealistic expectations on front line staff, coming from those who work from home. Complete lack of safety standards for property managers, harassment from residents is routine and no enforcement will be provided. There is a culture of voluntary unpaid overtime. The work load is incredibly overwhelming and there is no help provided (most notably because they are continuously understaffed) Feedback on performance seems to go through the entire company gossip train before it gets back to you.

2.0
17 May 2022

A Company That Can but Won't

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Pros

Some very good people who believe in the mission. Great Benefits package.

Cons

Bellwether is great at one thing: talking a good game but not following through. I agree with the other reviews here, the workload Bellwether puts on its frontline employees is excessive and the senior leadership showed no interest in addressing. So they will tell you that they are on it but they'll load you with more work. This shifting of more tasks is partly done on purpose but mostly out of disorganization. The company is very disorganized. Many upper management positions were created that even people who worked for years in their departments knew what they were supposed to do! In the meantime, the frontline staff has to do everything with little assistance. The supervisors are helpful but you are constantly bailing out water in a sinking ship. There's no thriving, all most staff are trying to do is survive the week. Bellwether likes to say that they pay well. They don't, at least not if you are a frontline employee. There was a rockstar manager who I recently heard is no longer part of the company. They told me once that while the pay might seem good, it is not commensurate with the amount of work that Bellwether makes a manager do. In Bellwether ONE manager has to do the work that other housing companies divide among several staff. So here's a few thousand more than Plymouth per year but do four peoples' jobs. So the frontline staff is overwhelmed, especially during and after the lockdown, but turnover has always been an issue. The turnover is high because Bellwether will work you to the ground. And yes, as mentioned in another review, there is a culture of working unpaid overtime. Bellwether fancies itself as "woke" and it's almost treated as a religion. It's all for show though because, as stated in other reviews, they talk a big game but don't care that their frontline staff is underpaid, overworked and mostly people of color. It's the classical privileged, enjoying their privilege while preaching about privilege but ignoring those without their privilege. Their idea of equity is to talk Catholic guilt style about their white privilege and job done,

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