Work hard, long hours, no one's happy - Anonymous employee Hoffman Media Employee Review

1.0
6 Sept 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

It's a job, and if you need a job in publishing, editorial, photography, or lifestyle content, this is a place with a paycheck.

Cons

I didn't meet anyone who really wanted to work there any longer than they had to. I think the owners, the Hoffman's, do that on purpose, so they'll never have to pay for retirement benefits. If you're salaried, or white collar, then you probably wouldn't get time for lunch, and this is M-F, every week of the year, you worked through lunch time --- which you were supposed to get time for. This is really bad management of people. For the occasional big project, working through lunch and breaks is understandable, but every day??? Several employees showed me where to find hidden stashes of food, in case you got hungry and hadn't brought a lunch bag to eat at your desk or in the studios. They prefers to hire young women, with the hopes that they'll quit after awhile to stay home and raise kids. The morale was terrible. The owners looked at their employees like a bothersome group, but they had to be somewhat decent to them, to keep their profits going. I was told that Paula Deen's magazines are the real reason this company stays in business, as she has huge multi-year contracts with them, so they don't have to depend on advertising clients like other media. Again, work there if you need work, but keep expectations low.

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