Not ready for digital - Anonymous employee Yoga Journal Employee Review

Great work space, inspiring colleagues

Unorganized at times, delayed feedback

Free yoga classes and free products; creative editorial/design culture, where everyone's ideas are heard and the best ideas are implemented; most (if not all) editors are yoga enthusiasts; office is based in downtown SF, just 8 blocks or so from the Bay. If you like to assign/edit/design yoga, lifestyle, personal growth, health and wellness content, this brand could be a good fit for you. It's a pretty high-quality publication, and it's won numerous Maggie and Folio awards for editorial and/or design excellence over the years. Generally speaking, there are a lot of nice people in the office. Yoga Journal offers generous PTO days and some employees have the ability to work from home, to a limited capacity, with permission of their supervisor.

Editorial and/or design teams are chronically short-staffed due to the perpetual "corporate squeeze"; long work hours are sometimes required; there are a few unprofessional, overdramatic employees in the art/edit team who slow down production. In order to maintain work/life balance, employees have to work highly efficiently and draw their own boundaries with management. Most art/edit employees feel they are underpaid for their work. There are no bonuses. Senior management of Yoga Journal and its parent company, Active Interest Media, are aging and lack the cutting-edge tech & digital media skills needed to keep the Yoga Journal brand competitive. Sometimes editors are promoted in title only, with no salary increase in sight. Budget cuts, etc., are not uncommon. Bottom line is more important than innovation at this company, and that can be unfortunate, at times.