The Bones Are Good—— THE SUBSTANCE IS NOT. - Business Development Manager OYO Employee Review

1.0
Jan 29, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

OYO has so much potential to be a disrupter in the hospitality/hotel industry. Compensation is competitive ($65K + Uncapped Commission). Benefits are offered to employees one month after their start date. Flexibility/Working from home. Excellent mid-level management, Grant Gifford being one of the best.

Cons

Unfortunately, OYO does not view their employees as assets, but rather as an expendable resource. OYO has historically and repeatedly terminated employees at will and without sufficient notice. OYO liquidates/reallocates the salaries of terminated employees salaries when deemed necessary by upper management and investors, instead of staffing their operations properly from the start with forethought. I was laid-off, along with nearly 80% of our Nashville team, after many of us had only been with the company for barely even two full months— when we were told all along that we would have a FULL 3-MONTH PERIOD to close sales. OYO laid off THOUSANDS of other employees across the world including India, China, & the United States. While laying off thousands of employees, OYO was forming a partnership with Sabre Travel Network to employ their in-house travel agents services. Simply, they liquidated capital by laying off their employees to reallocate those salaries to pay the salaries of an outside companies employees. Furthermore, to say OYO didn’t adequately train their employees would be a gross understatement. The initial 5 day training was lacking in substance, credible knowledge, and actual experience in the role by the trainers. Furthermore, after barely grasping the initial round of half-baked information in month number 1 — OYO went on to completely change the product and how we sell it. Companies are within their bounds to change things as they see fit, but when OYO implemented these drastic changes— they expected all BDM’s to go out and pitch something completely new, without any proper training whatsoever & without any material to show to these potential new clients. OYO is growing too quickly and it comes at the expense of employees at the bottom of the totem pole— rather than to the BILLIONAIRE CEO Ritesh Agarwal.

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