Headspace reviews

2.5

29% would recommend to a friend

(381 total reviews)
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Tom Pickett

17% approve of CEO

23% positive business outlook

Headspace has an employee rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars, based on 381 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Headspace employee rating is 35% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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381 reviews
1.0
Jun 8, 2022

B2B leadership is disconnected from what's really going on :(

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Headspace's product is simply amazing and is truly accomplishing the company's mission of improving the health and happiness of its' members. Everyone should be thanking the D2C marketing, creative, and product teams for making it what is today as it has opened up many doors for other sectors of the business like Headspace for Work and a lot of sensational brand partnerships like Waze and Star Wars. Additionally, the benefits and compensation package is incredible and highly competitive in the wellness tech/SaaS market. While leadership could use some work, I have made lifelong connections with my co-workers and for that, I'm grateful to Headspace.

Cons

While Headspace's product is fabulous, simply put the B2B sectors of the organization could use some TLC (even with the Ginger merger). As shown in the previous reviews, quality employees are truly suffering the coincidences of less than ideal senior, executive, and c-suite leadership. I sincerely believe that leadership means well, but truly doesn't realize that a 'pass the buck' / 'not my problem' mentality doesn't reach goals and is aloof to the struggles that the team truly faces. People join Headspace expecting empathetic leadership and psychological safety, given the mission, but as time elapses it all seems like a business tactic. I've seen some quality and experienced individuals leave recently because of burnout, their decline in mental/physical wellbeing, and lack of support/morale from B2B senior managers and directors. Oftentimes, it feels like B2B leaders are great at interpersonal communications and positioning a supportive environment with no real accountability or ownership on their part. Customers are interested in integrating Headspace into their benefits landscape because of the brand recognition of Headspace, a quality mental wellbeing solution, and organic adoption and engagement from their members, but sooner or later unhappy and overworked/under-resourced PSMs/AEs will lead to a substantial amount of turnover, which will lead to dissatisfied customers, which will lead to low retention. It is already happening. Not only that, and as previously stated, quality people are struggling with their mental health because of the above, which is messed up given the nature of the business..

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Headspace Response
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Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback and to offer several thoughtful solutions to your concerns. We’re excited to have recently welcomed a new Chief Commercial Officer who will be spending Q3 focused on improving the B2B processes to ensure a culture of accountability, productivity, and most importantly selfcare/wellbeing throughout all levels of the function. We implemented two four-day work weeks each month to support mindfulness and self-care. As with other four-day work week models, the work is not reduced, but rather shifted during the week to allow for a full days’ rest twice a month. Given the 24/7 model of care for our members, and in support of other teams who need to be accessible 5 days/week, MINDays within Headspace Health look different for different teams. We encourage you to speak with your manager or functional leader if you feel that you are not able to take advantage of MINDays as our goal is that every employee has dedicated time to rest and recharge. We have integrated most of our HR policies, and if you have any questions regarding policy specifics, please reach out to the People Ops team or your People Business Partner for clarification. There is always room for us to improve the application of these policies to ensure our people, clients, and members are each fully supported. Again, we appreciate your feedback, and we encourage you to continue the conversation as we find engaging in dialogue is the most effective way to continue to learn, grow and move the needle together.
2.0
Mar 2, 2022

where to begin?

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Pros

- focus on mental health - every other friday off - health benefits

Cons

- if you aspire to make money you don't come here. - Quotas are extremely inflated 0% of the sales team hit their annual # in 2021 - turnover, turnover, turnover - I've been here for 2 years and have had 3 CEOs and 5 bosses - no growth opportunities - I feel bad watching the new people get stiffed for accounts because they did not know the CEO or founder so they have the worst accounts you can imagine - 0 strategy to how we will execute on anything (I don't even know my quota for this year - not for lack of asking but apparently no one here knows it either)

3.0
Jul 13, 2020

Great Mission, Poor Execution

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- the product really is amazing and can be beneficial for people who need/use it - coworkers are (for the most part) really great - decent pay - awesome benefits - WFH has been nice

Cons

- no true direction: the company is trying to go in too many directions at once which has led to product being released before it's ready. this means buggy apps and unnecessary additions. - no true leadership: every department has too many "upper level" folks who really don't provide any sort of leadership or direction. - lack of knowledge: a good majority of the employees don't actually know how the app works, which is unsettling when certain departments are tasked with "selling" the product but don't provide any guidance to the organizations purchasing it. - clueless executive team: the executive team is a mess. they recently brought on a COO to help make some org changes (which make no sense in terms of structure), and the execs they've brought on since her hire are all straight from her former company (which makes the selections seem cherry-picked)

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