Disappointed with Management - Urban Farmer Infarm Employee Review

-The work is monotonous. Lots of repetitive motions over long periods of time. -You do not learn much about plants. -There is a disheartening amount of waste for a company promoting sustainability. The following comments are referring to the Vancouver location alone. I cannot speak on behalf of the other Infarm locations: -Favouritism was blatant. -A huge disconnect between management and floor staff. Management focus was more on numbers than people. There were many employees voicing their concerns over an extended period of time, yet we saw no change. As Infarm expanded, the output that was required also increased. But we were not given the time or resources to handle these increases. We were severely understaffed which put a lot of pressure on existing employees to meet output demands. Instead of hiring people for the team, management decided to have temporary workers instead and this has been ongoing for several months. The turnover of temp workers was very high, and the teams would spend so much energy and time training new temp workers every few days, which hindered our performance and output. Employees were getting burnt out. Management used the excuse that this was the nature of a start up but I disagree. There are many ups and downs of a start up but this was an easily preventable situation.