Fear-based leadership - Designer IMAGE LOCATIONS Employee Review

1. Great perks – the company covers lunch, checks received every Friday, and we can dress casually. Plus, it’s a dog-friendly office and we even have yoga on Thursdays. 2. Exciting work – my job involves interacting with a lot of people. Every day is different, so I really enjoy being here. 3. Positive team vibe – no drama, no egos. We’re focused on working with one another and getting stuff done together. 4. Good work-life balance – no late nights, just the opposite of how it was in my previous job.

I haven’t had to deal with any major problems. I'll just say that if you’re collaborative and open-minded, you’ll enjoy working here.

The building itself is actually nice, and your day-to-day colleagues aren't he problem.

The constant accessibility expectation here is suffocating, and management doesn't even frame it as the problem that it is. You get messages at night, weekends, and there's this implicit agreement that you respond because that's just how the company operates. They market it as flexibility when it's really just shift your entire life to fit their needs. Nobody ever truly clocks out — the work just keeps flowing whether you're at your desk or not. What burns you out isn't the actual job, its the complete absence of any boundary between work and the rest of your life. It's normalized in such a subtle way that you don't realize you're drowning until you already are.