Share Local Media
What's the Work-Life Balance Like at Share Local Media?
Frequently Asked Questions
Share Local Media ensures sustainable workloads and work-life balance by (setting company-wide norms around working hours, monitoring capacity in resource planning, and encouraging full PTO use. Share Local Media wants to provide a healthy pace of work, reasonable expectations, and a balance between personal and professional life.
Employees highlight managers respecting boundaries, clear prioritization of work, and reasonable project timelines as reasons workload feels manageable.
What People Are Saying About Share Local Media
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Workload Manageability: Company-wide norms around working hours and capacity planning, plus managers who help prioritize and set reasonable timelines, are described as keeping workloads sustainable. Feedback suggests day-to-day pacing is intentionally managed to avoid chronic overwork.
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Time Off Access: Generous policies—flexible or unlimited PTO, paid holidays and sick days, bereavement and volunteer time, and multi‑month parental leave—are paired with active encouragement to fully unplug. Feedback suggests access to leave and return-to-work support make time away practical, not just policy.
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Remote or Hybrid Flexibility: A distributed, hybrid model with remote options and periodic meetups—anchored by an NYC HQ with a typical three‑days‑in cadence—provides location flexibility. Feedback suggests this setup helps make work sustainable.
Share Local Media's Benefits
Offers a flexible time off policy
Offers generous PTO
Offers paid volunteer time
Provides bereavement leave
Provides paid holidays
Provides paid sick days
Utilizes an Unlimited PTO policy
Offers company-sponsored happy hours
Happy hours are hosted monthly.
Offers company-sponsored outings
Offers fitness stipend
Offers wellness programs
Partners with nonprofits
We have added a QR Code to all shared mail envelopes to make it easier for people to donate to Village Enterprise, a non-profit dedicated to ending extreme poverty in rural Africa.
Provides opportunities to volunteer in the local community
Offers a remote work program
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the team is working remotely, but we have an office in FiDi that is open and usable for all employees.
Utilizes a flexible work schedule
SLM provides employees with a flexible work schedule - we trust our employees to get their work done.
Utilizes a hybrid work model
Utilizes a summer hours schedule
Utilizes restricted work hours
