Pros
-Ground operational staff (front desk, most instructors, maintenance) are great folks. They’re the people you see daily that make your experiences possible. -The practice itself is fun but not unique. Vera Yoga and Heatwise as well as yoga companies prior to Y7’s opening have done it before yet they act as the initiators.
Cons
-Lack of safety in regards to Covid management (only clients would receive notification of potential exposure pre 2022, not full staff) -Performative tokenism to cover their faults post the racist fallout of summer of 2020 (The company has an active history of exploiting/profiteering off of black culture all the while continuing to colonize the indigenous practice of yoga ) by promoting the few BIPOC employs they had (yet ownership, investors, and key decision makers are still predominantly cis-het & white/ Eurocentric in beliefs). -White instructors playing music containing racist explicit verbiage (If you know, you know). -No respect towards the acknowledgment of pronouns or gender identity (nor any formal company wide training to address said issues) -The lowest retention rate of any company I have every worked for. They can’t keep employees because instead of compensating everyone what they’re worth, they rather incentivize labour so they can continue to put more classes on the schedule than what their instructors have the capacity to teach. -When addressing problems to direct management and HR (which you’d assume would be willing to address your concerns), they do nothing more than cover the company’s backside from potential litigation by lying, gaslighting, ignoring, and misconstruing statements to avoid any form of accountability. -No transparency or sense of authenticity. It’s all love & light until an issue arises— then it becomes back room meetings and shady “he said, she said, they said” texts/email threads instead of communicating as healthy, emotionally intelligent adults. -Every commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equity is false. It is not the priority in any of their operational business practices unless it helps their social standing or potential to gain revenue.
