Headspace in name - No longer Headspace in nature - Anonymous employee Headspace Employee Review

I optimistically wanted to give the merger some time to settle this last year - It’s been pretty turbulent & heavily detrimental to the organization we knew and loved before. These are my most concerning observations over the last 12 months: • Inauthentic & inexperienced post-merger leadership team, inclusive of CEO. • 90% of legacy Headspace C-Suite ousted and replaced by all of Ginger CEOs “yes” people, creating immediate (brand) imbalance, skewed diversity of thought, and almost total loss of Headspace DNA & knowledge • (Openly & Unabashedly) no formal evaluation or selection process whatsoever for selection of post-merger leadership team, in the face of the most important time in our modern world for us to lead by example in being fair & equitable. • Diabolically inconsistent integration experience to date • Painful journey to a unified product offering, which still feels consistent and disjointed depending on who you’re talking to in the business on any given day • Majority of leadership team openly still don’t practice mediation/mindfulness or even use the product itself • HUGE backward steps with psychological safety across the org since merger • Toxic positivity abounds - Real-talk has been stamped out • Weird new resistance to direct and authentic feedback ownership & management. ‘Courageous Heart’ was seemingly buried alive, with the roll-out of new Core Values post-merger which still don’t resonate • Inauthentic & arbitrary layoffs as we got ready for Christmas (!). Terribly insensitive timing and void of any clear layoff rationale.