Do not work here if you can avoid it. - Senior Social Media Manager New Reach Employee Review

Religion in the work place, improper use of company funds, ineffective leadership, no support for team members Do not work here if you can avoid it. My company was absorbed by New Reach and all the transferring employees were handed the wildest employment contracts I have ever seen. There was a five year non-compete and a clause to accept the company’s in-office religious antics (starting meetings with prayers, hosting gatherings led by a pastor on successful Christian dating and marriages, as well as an in office, salaried chaplain who was there daily). The merger was handled horribly. They stuffed our organization chart into theirs and gave arbitrary new job titles based on salary. People who were managers hired two months previously were now directors simply because of their income level, not their knowledge of the brands or company processes/ Management has no idea what to do, how to execute it, or how to support teams. New Reach Education will be the death of every brand they house. They have sunset at least three brands I know of and the rest are failing, sales down across the board. The lack of management and HRs inability to help with any employee support, means that employees are required to peer review each other across department regardless if they’ve never worked with the other team member. I went to HR multiple times about the ineffectiveness and lack of support from my manager only to be told to, “talk to your manager.” The CEO was fired along with 30 other employees and the Founder and acting CEO, Josiah Grimes went to Africa for three weeks. When the 30 employees were let go, the rest of us were brought into a conference room were told by Josiah Grimes, “Sometimes in business we have to say goodbye to our friends, we have to part ways with friends and we have some friends we are parting ways with today.” He also mentioned something about needing to be good stewards of brands and of company funds. That was when we looked around and realized how empty the room was and put together that anyone not in the room was being let go. So if you’re looking for job security, this is not a place you should expect to find it. About three days later they bought 9, 72” TVs to “display KPIs,” key performance indicators for each department, which were never displayed. A month before that they spent $60,000 on laptop bags that were thrown away and an overnight of custom Branded Bills hats that were never distributed. Sounds like good stewardship of company funds to me. There are no meeting spaces, you’re in an open floor, bullpen, I was often told on Zoom calls that the person on the other end couldn’t hear me because of all the ambient noise and chatter in the background. But noise canceling microphone/headsets were something we had to beg to get, “What do you need it for?” You’re seen and treated as a number not an individual. If you need a trashcan at your desk, you’d be best served to bring your own as it took a four person approval process to get anything purchased. New Reach is vehemently against work from home. Though people constantly inquired about it (due to the lack of meeting space) and were told, “we are constantly reviewing our policy.” However, work from home requires strong leadership, understanding everyone’s roles, something that is inherently missing at this company. You’re unable to simply perform the duties of your job as you need to market yourself around the office and those campaign style interactions are the only way to secure upward mobility or any kind of fair compensation. Don’t work here. It’s a place talent goes to be burnt out and unappreciated.