24 Feb 2022
Anonymous employee
onX Response
4yThank you for sharing your thoughts. I will admit I found your feedback a bit soul crushing on a personal level and it is very clear that something is off with our communication on important issues.
First and foremost, I am most concerned about your experience with “one of the managers”. onX is a company with zero tolerance for this type of behavior. Your experience triggered some bad memories for me personally from early in my career when I was inappropriately touched by a person in authority. I experienced a range of emotions starting with disbelief, anger and fear. I didn’t want to report it because I felt for some reason I would get blamed, I didn’t want attention and I didn’t think anyone would believe me. It was stressful, I thought I was tough. I can handle this myself. But after careful thought, I was worried that it might happen to someone else, I would have felt horrible if it happened to someone else and so I reported it. The company that I worked for believed me and came to find out there were others. I did the right thing though it wasn’t at all comfortable. onX is also a company that does not tolerate this type of behavior. Please consider reaching out to me to share your experience or at a minimum please send more details to the anonymous channel so that we can investigate. I am certain that you too will want to put an end to it. It looks like you are in Bozeman. I am located in MSO but am open to meet with you wherever you are located in a location where you feel most comfortable. Just send an email directly to me at jann.butler@onxmaps.com Also, our CEO Laura Orvidas is located in the Bozeman office and would love the opportunity to meet with you if that works better for you.
As for the other issues, it looks like we are lacking some communication. onX is a company that began in Montana in the predominantly male dominated hunt business.Naturally, at that point in time we had a more male dominated workforce. With the move to two additional products and a more distributed workforce, the demographics of our workforce has shifted significantly. It does take time to make that shift but we are passionate about ensuring that the demographics of our workforce align with the demographics of our customer base to ensure we are aligned with our new and emerging customers. Look for a DEI page coming soon to Confluence with more information. Also, with the shift to a more distributed population, onX has also shifted our compensation structure to align with a more national vs. regional structure. Unlike other companies who are adjusting pay by location, onX has elected to nationalize our structures.
You have identified some other areas I am eager to understand as well to better understand your point of view with some specifics. Again, please feel free to use the anonymous channel. Our CEO receives those and researches each and every one in detail or you can reach out to our CEO directly. As a leadership team we are eager for feedback and learning where we can do better.
I sincerely appreciate your honesty and candor. I do hope to hear from you directly or through the anonymous channel. Also, feel free to reach out directly to our CEO Laura Orvidas. Thank you in advance for your courage to share more details.
Jann Butler
VP, People