Embarrassing - Trip Leader and Trip Expert Backroads Employee Review

Thank you for taking the time to share your perspective. We appreciate your recognition of the lifelong friendships, travel opportunities, and unique experiences that can come with this role. We are sorry to hear that your overall experience left you with a negative impression. We take concerns about transparency, compensation, performance pressure, and how feedback is received seriously. We strive to create a company culture where every individual feels empowered to share feedback whether between coleaders on trip or with management. We provide multiple opportunities for feedback through our mentoring program, end-of-year surveys, field visits, direct lines of communication with every Leadership Development team member, and ad hoc opportunities to share each individual’s perspective. We pride ourselves on offering a highly competitive and holistic compensation structure that stands out in the industry. We consistently evaluate our overall compensation based on employee feedback and industry standards. Our employment structure focuses on providing the highest possible quality experience for our guests, while ensuring it meets various employment regulations across 16 country-specific payrolls. It is not structured to limit pay or health benefit potential - rather, the opposite. In that vein, for our US field staff who do not qualify for the employer-provided health insurance due to the minimum-hours threshold, we provide monthly wellness stipends to help compensate for any out-of-pocket health care costs. We deeply value the time you spent with Backroads creating amazing experiences for our guests and wish you the best moving forward.