They have no morals: Prince Harry in trouble over mental health firm from…
Prince Harry has never been shy when it comes to talking about mental health, but his work with mental health firm BetterUp is now facing scrutiny.
His role with the firm is to “advocate for mental fitness” and “guide the company’s social mission”, and Harry has even praised the app by calling it “life coach Tinder for millennials.
Despite advocating and praising the firm, past and present employees have described the US-based business as a “toxic train wreck” and a “psychologically unsafe place to work” where “everyone is uncomfortable and living in fear.”
One worker also took aim at BetterUp’s “elitist club of leaders” by stating they “have no moral compass” and “lack self awareness.”
A company chief executive who used the firm’s service vowed to never use them again, stating: “I had concerns about the confidentiality of my discussions and privacy during coaching calls with coaches.”
Another called the sales team “predatory”: “I am glad I backed out because I read reviews by former employees and it didn’t look good and also highlighted the poor pay pressure to sell and lay offs and that they pay Prince Harry over a million dollars a year.”
Harry’s work with the firm
Harry has been the Chief Impact Officer at the US-firm since 2021, making regular appearances for the company on stage and over livestreams.
He has also made visits to the company’s buildings in San Francisco and Austin, where employees have office dogs, yoga studies and armchairs to unwind.
Despite all that, past and present employees have been critical of the company via Glassdoor, which publishes company ratings and reviews by employees.
As things stand, BetterUp has a 2.8 rating out of five based on over 600 reviews. Only 35 percent of people would recommend working there to a friend.
“The company is a mess. Executive leadership is so detached from everyone else, engages in weird trips and spending, constantly shifts strategy and shuffles team functions,” a review from October reads.
As others have mentioned, there is a rampant favoritism with select employees being able to use the company as a open playground: sidestepping any process, being put into multiple VP roles across org functions regardless of qualification, escalating (often via text) to the founders the second they don’t get what they want, never being at risk of layoffs.
“This often results in one person being able to single-handedly derail an org-wide project at a company of 700+ people.”
