Future reviews

- Job doesn't feel secure - We live in a modern era where video conferencing, phone calls, and airplanes make it incredibly easy to stay in touch and accomplish much without a physical location. Right after acquiring Purch, they removed all the video conferencing equipment in the Utah building and later claimed they laid off the whole building because it was "too hard" to communicate with them. They claim they want a bigger presence in the United States yet they're consolidating all the US brands to a tiny space in New York where there isn't enough room to test the many products their sites claim to test. They're also putting more work on the shoulders of fewer people. - HR and IT have been incredibly consolidated and it takes way too long to get any kind of answers or help from them. IT is also overly stingy about putting necessary software on your computers. My boss needed to add Adobe typekit to his machine so he could get the needed fonts for the multiple brands we work on and he had to jump through tons of hoops just to get that done. They treated it with way too much suspicion - like he wanted to install something malicious. - Future has acquired a ton of brands in an incredibly short amount of time and made tons of decisions about those brands without taking the necessary time to do their research and incorporate them correctly. - Senior level management seems to care more about increasing the number of brands they have and building their monetization platform than building the brands and helping them flourish. Being primarily a magazine company, they also refuse to put more effort into social media - which is huge in the United States and an almost necessary platform for advertising and increasing traffic these days. - Future is overly stingy about money in the wrong places and doesn't care enough in the right places. When traveling, you often have to share a hotel room with someone else which just screams lawsuit in the making. They immediately cut off wi-fi in the Utah building when they laid everyone off and the handful of people who were staying on with the company had to pack up 100s of thousands of dollars worth of products and equipment in a week of time and donate much of it to thrift stores. Future could have saved more money by giving the employees time to sell the equipment. Also, several of the employees had to pull 12 hour days to get the products shipped out.

Where do I start. My company was acquired by Future and the work experience went downhill immediately. I loved my company and my work prior to the takeover, but post-takeover morale suffered across the board. Future doesn't care about individual employees. No raises or promotions are ever encouraged or offered, there are no career advancement opportunities whatsoever. Communication is a definite failure. Future doesn't address rumors until they are out of control, and only then do they send out a basic email with no information. You must wait weeks to hear back from IT and HR. An average of 2 weeks for IT (I've been tracking). Layoffs every few months, with very poor severance packages. Absolutely no local resources. If a computer breaks, you must contact someone in IT across the world to fix it. HR asked us to send SSNs through email (which isn't secure or legal). HR also lied to us about W2 information. They forgot to apply for State employer numbers and encouraged us to simply put a 9999999 as the number (also illegal). If the HR personnel doesn't know the answer to a question they will either give you false information repeatedly until you call them on it with proof, OR say (and I quote): "I don't know, hopefully you do". They don't bother to find information for you at all. Payroll "forgot" to transfer funds to our 401ks for multiple pay periods, and remedied the situation only after multiple employees noticed their funds were missing. During the acquisition period, entire offices didn't receive paychecks due to delays and healthcare coverage was delayed everywhere else. Future is very "cheap" and doesn't want to foot the bill for even basic programs like MS office. 401K contributions are a 2.5% match up to 6%, less than other companies I've worked for. The NYC office of Future US has unionized and received very little support from management (which makes sense at this point). Future isn't recognizing the union and instead continues to cram too many employees into a tiny office (to save on costs). This means that every square foot of space is occupied, people must share desks (a method called hot desking meaning first come first serve), and there are too many employees to fit into the office at one time, so there is a work from home system so as to not upset the fire code. It's absolute chaos. I don't recommend working for this company. My family and friends are shocked I still work here, considering the sheer number of snafus that have happened. The environment is too unpredictable and you'll receive very little support.