prAna Living reviews about "benefit"

Prana had one of the most toxic work environments i've ever experienced. After the company was bought by columbia horrendous management was brought, people with no connection to the outdoor or yoga lifestyle making all of the decisions, and all bad ones. product has suffered due to this for a long time now. Anyone showing initiative to improve product or culture is perceived as a threat and pushed out of the company. Feedback is regularly requested but giving any negative feedback will have repercussions. Its very sad this used to be one of the best places to work and now it's the worst. How the leadership at this company is continuing to support terrible middle management is beyond my comprehension and massively affecting the company bottom line. Prana is hemorrhaging money and doing layoffs every few months, and with every round of layoffs people are quitting because its the best people being removed from the company.

No major problems during my time here other than typical retail woes. Sometimes it's slow and you can't make your personal goal for the day. It depends who your manager is but mine understood that we were all hard workers and tried our best everyday. I can see where the personal sales goals would become a problem for others with the wrong team and manager. Close to the time I left things started to change a little bit. Home office lost a bit of it's friendliness and started to become the "corporate" environment that I don't think it wanted to become. We had a visit from some people at home office and not one of them bothered to introduce themselves to me or the sales associate on duty. While the store manager was on a phone call in back, they sat in our comfy chairs and kept to themselves instead of interacting with us or even just shaking our hand. It was like we weren't good enough to talk to. In the past during these visits, everyone was warm and wanted to talk to you and get your opinion on the store, on foot traffic, on the product line. It was very off putting. This same scenario happened again before I left and it was just...well... it made me feel like I wasn't part of prAna.

Work life balance, hybrid schedule, non-transparent leadership, owned by a corporation

It *could* be a "Dream Job" provided more training and development happened at the retail level - some employees seem frustrated that their position feels as though it's staying static, and some employees who hold management positions have things that they could fine tune in order to create a more positive work environment

- Bad PTO & Benefits package - A small company that allows some inappropriate behavior from seniors - Over worked, under paid - Many product manufacturing issues - Lack of unified company vision

Retail is small and there is not a lot of room to grow.

PTO policies, company culture, flexibility

Poor management, lack of support from anyone higher up than you, PTO policies and procedures are frustrating and leaves you feeling guilty for requesting it. E-commerce policies are very unprepared and terrible for customers, leaving them upset and they take it out on you, the representative. Escalations really affect everyone’s mental health here and it is not validated nor empathized by management.

The bonuses are not consistent.