Emerald reviews

I have lost faith in the corporate management team (especially the new group) over time. Was exciting when they first came, but has eroded quickly over time. The people and culture aspect is literally non-existent. I don't think anyone in the company besides executive leadership team has even seen our EVP of HR, especially through all the recent crisis (COVID and diversity). We sit on calls where executive management talks about getting paid out insurance claims and an influx of investment from our owners, Onex, yet our sales people who made sales for the first quarter shows still cannot get an answer on if they will get paid commissions on sales that were made months ago and Emerald still holds on to the money. Then all the other big players in the event industry have committed to taking pay cuts for the senior management to try to preserve their hard working staff, do you know what the response to that question on the Emerald earnings call “Corporate Management costs are fixed” = contracts. Just so sad in a time like this and extremely disheartening. No clear strategic direction at all and if there is an attempt to do so it is so rushed there is very little time to think through it. And there is NO team work - there is an attempt but at every turn it is every one for themselves.

Lacking training, every person for themselves attitude, although there is a flexible vacation policy, there are no accommodations made in order to make this possible, technological systems are outdated, management intentionally does not advocate for their employees in order to increase their chances of getting ahead, poor work-life balance, feedback to management and upper management is not acted upon, fear of punishment or rebuke for making mistakes when in reality, there is no proper training or support along the way. I feel like I was set up to fail.