A hub for neo-liberalism & heinous work culture.
Pros
Good benefits, vacation time (~5 weeks), fully paid for health care.
Cons
TL;DR: Management is heinous. Bringing up racial and gender justice is near impossible. Meetings are stacked back-to-back and you're expected to do the role of 3-4 staff members while not getting compensated enough. No flex schedule, heinous work culture, racism and transphobia (especially coming from management), meetings are stacked back-to-back when they could have been emails, gaslight-y work culture Details below: The vacation and benefits are better than other organizations, but when you're residing in the DC area on a $48,500 salary, I just don't understand how anyone thinks that's a livable wage. The kicker is that they run campaigns on taxing the rich and giving workers a fair, living wage when they don't even pay their employees a fair, livable wage. On work culture: expect to be gaslit. They'll tell you they appreciate you, give the team gifts, grant one day/month for office closure, but fail to give you expectations so come raises/promotions season (which is ONCE/YEAR BTW with exceptions for majority of white staff, senior staff, etc...) they'll tell you you're not ready despite you doing the job and labor of 3-4 people. If anything, they'll give you vague answers for why you didn't earn the promotion. I worked in the digital team and that was a mess. I was never given expectations nor guidance for how to utilize digital tools, strategies, and tactics -- I had to investigate on my own / learn from peers who really helped me out and helped me further develop my strategic thinking, skills, and knowledge. I'm really upset about working here because there's so little room for professional development and personal reflection. It felt like as a queer person of color that I always had to put in additional work to combat the rampant white patriarchal supremacist work culture here while also managing social media, digital partnerships, strategy, and employment of tactics. Several digital senior staff have almost no clue what they're doing and how to manage people. A lot of the work is put on junior staff with unclear communication structure, goal-setting, etc... Teams can literally put together a campaign plan and it'll get thrown out the window with no explanation for why, what could be improved, and you have no room to question or process because you're getting slammed/messaged at 10pm ET (almost nightly for some staffers) about this new campaign plan/tactic that they need to employ by 11am ET the next morning. I cannot stress enough how real this is. There is virtually no recognition of life/work balance and boundaries. You're just expected to labor and be their pawn, especially if you're "junior" staff. This is not an organization that cares about/for/with BIPOC, poor, LGBTQIA+, immigrant communities and populations. I would highly advise folks to avoid working here. Former coworkers told me that the relationships they built here were so valuable, but what are relationships that are built on being traumatized together? Furthermore, they had a no WFH policy (unless ofc you were senior staff/management or "absolutely needed" subject to the judgment of your manager) before COVID. Now they're talking about reopening again despite many staff having relocated outside of DC. I'm not sure what that's going to look like, but they'll basically favor their senior staff/management and "work something out" while forcing their underpaid junior staff to relocate to an expensive city with a barely-livable annual salary. The Hub is an organization that prides itself for being a leader in progressive nonprofits / left-leaning nonprofit spaces, but is staunchly anti-union. Unionizing efforts have been underway for the past 2 years (it'll be 2 years in September) and management has been consistently undermining and disregarding the unionizing efforts (rescheduling or postponing meetings or putting on an inhuman amount of work on union organizers). In talking with management about why this is so -- they'll tell you that change is slow. Change is only slow because management and folks who could easily make quick changes hold the keys in doing so. But in instituting change that will greatly help POC, queer folks, immigrants the key holders have to sacrifice a part of their privilege, which of course none of them will.
