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
4.0
Jul 21, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

All of the benefits that employees receive. Plus the ability to work from home.

Cons

difficult question to answer at this moment

1.0
Jul 19, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The hiring team (includes amazing employees who were unfortunately laid off) did a great job about recruiting the right people. The other coaches are the only thing left that is positive.

Cons

I’ll start with the “benefits”. First of all, they tell you that you get holidays off and that you have autonomy over which ones you’ll have to work as a coach. That’s a lie. Second, they say that you have flexible time off, that’s a lie. You’re lucky if you get ANY time off, due to “coverage concerns”. Third, “MINDdays/self-care days” are assigned months in advance and they will include this as your time off so you basically have no control as to what days you get to have off. The point of these days is that you get to disconnect when you need it, but in coaching that doesn’t apply. Fourth, “self-care stipend” is mainly used by many or all to cover phone and wifi bills because despite working remotely, they do not cover for this. Oh also, you won’t have access to equity unless you stay in this hellhole for 4 years. I can’t forget to add that they recently did a lay-off and it’s pretty obvious that it affected a group of people that took a lot of time off and leaves of absence for any reason (sick, caregiving, etc) and now people worry if they’ll get fired for it too. Not to mention the toxic positivity, condescending attitude, gaslighting and abuse you will experience from management. Working with members is what we’re ultimately here for but when you talk with 25 people a day, you get compassion fatigue. Overall not worth it and will be gone soon, which is probably what they’re hoping for anyway to get away with not paying severance packages.

2.0
Jul 18, 2023

Poor leadership and forecasting - no accountability for c-suite

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Flexible PTO, every other Friday off. Free Udemy access for learning, virtual experiences and meditation. Free Headspace for life.

Cons

Very poor leadership, especially in the c-suite. During the latest round of layoffs, the only exec who was let go was the chief people officer. Really? The people department is the problem? They also let a ton of therapists go, making their clients feel abandoned, which was reported in the LA times. So mind-bogglingly dumb, as Headspace is attempting to scale up the care side to offer more services on the platform. Where is the accountability for the poor forecasting? Missed sales targets? CFO Sean Brecker has been around too long and seems to skate by, despite mis-forecasting year after year. CEO Russ Glass went on a long "boat trip" vacation to Costa Rica two days after the layoffs in June - totally tone deaf. The employees are a mix of kind, supportive and talented newer people versus the entitled, need for emotional baby-sitting legacy employees who complain about everything. One employee asked in an all hands why we were carrying almond milk in the fridges, because there's too much water used in it's creation. Seriously.

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