Pros
Great industry! Helping people enjoy our mountain communities is perk number 1. People are a pillar in any business and Vail has wonderful people who care and work hard to collectively carry the company forward. Meaningful core values (though lack of integrity in action-see below).
Cons
Most recently the executive leadership team announced (via mass email) a mandatory return to in office work 3 days per week for all employees within a 50 mile radius of headquarters (the entire Denver metro area). At face value this seems fair enough as any company can choose to adjust their work policies as they see fit. However the concern is that for years the company has had a strong affirming stance around remote work that outlined their core foundational beliefs such as; "Flexible remote work allows us to honor flexibility and choice while providing access to a larger pool of talented people, and to create teams with a broader diversity of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives within our company." "We believe we can be successful regardless of where we choose to work; performance is based on outcomes not proximity." These are beliefs that many people share and bought into whole heartedly when they joined this company. Now they have vanished. There have been no accommodations offered other than making sure we feel "supported" and "empowered" to choose to find employment elsewhere. We recently were named by Newsweek as one of the Most Trustworthy Companies in America, but for many internally that certainly does not feel like the case.