Layoffs, More Work, Less Pay - Graphic Designer The N2 Company Employee Review

3.0
Jul 15, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Remote Work, Great Coworkers, and Flexible Schedule

Cons

Lots of Change, Many Designers working over 40 hours a week to make deadlines after layoffs at the beginning of 2025. Lack of Communication from leadership regarding layoffs in other related departments. Communication from CEO that is tone deaf to the amount of work and expectations of the publication team (for example talking about salary caps after the entire team is working more hours with higher quality expectations with no increase in pay). Company has toxic happiness culture where everything is ok and fine after undergoing extreme changes with decreases in benefits and no increase in pay. Communications to middle leadership shows that they understand but we just have to keep chugging along and things will be ok. I will note that the current CEO is new to the position, likely inherited a bad situation and is trying to fix things. There are positive changes coming (such as cost of living pay increases) but will it be too little too late?

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The N2 Company Response
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Hello. We really appreciate you sharing your perspective, but more importantly, your advice on how we can continue to improve the employee experience. As you mentioned, leadership has changed very recently and in just a few months, we have rolled out some new benefits we hope will further improve the experience of our team members. Please keep in mind that while we do share reviews such as this with leadership, we strongly urge you to submit such feedback directly to the CEO as part of his new "Ask the CEO" program. As always, feedback can be submitted anonymously, like it is on this platform.

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