Pros
Friends and colleagues made whilst working at HI are incredible people from a variety of creative, intelligent, and wonderful backgrounds. Offer workshops with the best yoga teachers in the US today.
Cons
There is a severe lack of communication between departments, employees, and upper management. The work culture is that of do more with less time and time again even though the organization continues to have rising profits. There is little investment in employees and people are treated as disposable. I worked at HI for over a year. There is little consideration for employee quality of life, burnout, or quality of work from the executive director. Along with a culture of treating people as disposable, there is rampant nepotism, mismanagement, unfair pay, favoritism, and lack of respect for the amount of hard work people are doing in order to help this institution grow. There is a deep sentiment of this among many employees but a culture of loyalty at any cost, secrecy, and being fired for speaking out that prevents employees and residents from speaking up and out so that problems could be solved and things could get better. All of this is deeply unfortunate considering this organization could truly provide a great deal of resources and knowledge to our communities. The pay scale is extremely unfair and the majority of people live in poverty whilst working 50 hour weeks. I found this workplace to be full of hypocrisy, toxicity, and without appreciation for all the people who actually make the organization function. There is an inner circle which no employee, no matter how brilliant or hard working or how much they contribute will ever be able to enter into, and this leaves zero room for any kind of career growth. The attitude amongst people is that those who take it upon themselves to get close to the right people may get ahead, but unless you're a favorite you are not cared for. I was fortunate to have a direct supervisor that advocated for me but saw peers who had been there far longer get treated terribly because they either felt they could not advocate or fight for themselves or their supervisor had no interest in helping their employees grow. This organization has deep, deep managerial and executive functioning issues, and it seems to me that anyone who tries to communicate to management is asked to leave-it is never this organization's issue, it is always the issue of the employee. This is a terrible place to work if you seek the following out of your workplace: fair pay, communication, transparency, collaborate work environment, appreciation from management, or career growth opportunitues.