Pros
Headspace was built on the backs of two beautiful companies that cared greatly about both their employees and the people they served (legacy Headspace and legacy Ginger pre-merger. The non-upper management employees of Headspace/Ginger are the best humans you can find. If you join here, you will be blessed to be surrounded by amazing heart-centered humans.
Cons
Headspace now is a corporation without heart, without integrity, and is not mission-based. The non-upper management employees still have loads of heart and are doing everything they can for a mission they believe in, but please know that the board and upper-level management only care about money and going public, not about members or non-upper level leadership. If you come to work here... This is what you can expect: You will have zero work-life balance and be bled dry and asked/told to give more and more as fewer and fewer employees remain. You will start out giving willingly for the mission, but soon you will see that members mean nothing to this company. They are only dollar signs. They definitely do not care about you. All empty rhetoric. Layoff after layoff after layoff and false claims each time of this being the last one because "we cut so deep this time". A CEO who is possibly AI and certainly only communicates from an AI-written script. I wish I had left long ago instead of an ignorant hope that the days of leadership caring about the mission and the employees would return. This company being a mental health and mindfulness company is a joke. The rhetoric about workplace wellness, mindfulness at work, and mental health being important for companies to pay attention to is all for sales-purposes and not how Headspace runs its own business. And be careful... Do not bring your full self to work. Know that if you are BIPOC, you are being hired to be tokenized. Do not share about the issues and challenges you see, as you will certainly be part of the next lay-off.
