Playboy reviews

Too many executives, not enough workers. Upper management is so afraid that if they tell us anything about what's happening (or, more importantly, what's intended to happen) with the business that we will run like lemmings off of a cliff. This succeeds in making us all want to leave because we feel like we are not respected. After Playboy went private, the new parent company is basically slashing and burning different parts of the core and hoping that everything will continue to work right. A little bit of preemptive communication could have gone a long way toward avoiding problems that are coming now. Scott Flanders.

It has recently gone through an enormous upheaval at the top management level. It may be too little or too late. Playboy puts a premium on being a top-heavy organization and never saw a problem that it thought it couldn't solve with another Vice President, though that may be slowly changing with the new CEO. At the end of the day, Playboy is a family business and has deep idiosyncrasies at the DNA level that other publicly-held companies don't have.