{"id":116218,"date":"2021-06-10T15:12:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T15:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=116218"},"modified":"2021-06-10T15:12:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T15:12:35","slug":"craft-beer-brewer-brewdog-accused-of-breeding-culture-of-fear-by-ex-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/business\/craft-beer-brewer-brewdog-accused-of-breeding-culture-of-fear-by-ex-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Craft beer brewer BrewDog accused of breeding \u2018culture of fear\u2019 by ex-employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Over 70 ex-BrewDog employees signed an open letter to the independent brewer, along with another 45 former staff members &quot;who did not feel safe to include either their names or initials.&quot;\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>&quot;Put bluntly, the single biggest shared experience of former staff is a residual feeling of fear,&quot; the letter read.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>LONDON \u2014 BrewDog, the independent craft beer brewer based in Scotland, has been accused of breeding a &quot;culture of fear&quot; in an open letter by former employees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The letter published Wednesday said BrewDog had been &quot;built on a cult of personality.&quot; It went on to say that &quot;by placing personalities at the centre of your messaging, you have inflated egos and fostered a culture within craft beer that deifies founders, and gives weight to sexist and misogynistic brewers who claim to be standing up for free speech.&quot;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It said that BrewDog had spent years claiming to be a top employer but &quot;ask former staff what they think of those claims, and you&#x27;ll most likely be laughed at.&quot;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>BrewDog was founded in 2007 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland and has seen success thanks to the boom in popularity of craft beer, expanding into the U.S. in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The letter included a section addressing BrewDog co-founder James Watt directly, stating that it was with him that the &quot;responsibility for this rotten culture lies.&quot; Watt tweeted a response to the letter on Thursday, saying that it was &quot;so upsetting, but so important.&quot;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Our focus now is not on contradicting or contesting the details of that letter, but to listen, learn and act,&quot; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Watt said BrewDog was &quot;sorry&quot; and that it would reach out to both past and present employees to learn more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over 70 ex-BrewDog employees signed the open letter to the independent brewer, along with another 45 former staff members &quot;who did not feel safe to include either their names or initials.&quot;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The letter stated that it didn&#x27;t matter which part of the business that ex-employees worked in, they &quot;all felt that in our day to day working lives, there were at best hurdles, and at worst genuine safety concerns.&quot;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Put bluntly, the single biggest shared experience of former staff is a residual feeling of fear,&quot; the letter read.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition to claims about BrewDog&#x27;s culture, the letter accused the business of having pursued marketing &quot;vanity projects.&quot; And it claimed the brand had brewed an eco-friendly saison, a type of pale ale, with glacier water, &quot;(half of which was dumped down the drain) so the proceeds could go to charity (but only after the donation was slashed because it was too much).&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/06\/10\/brewdog-accused-of-breeding-culture-of-fear-by-ex-employees.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 70 ex-BrewDog employees signed an open letter to the independent brewer, along with another 45 former staff members &quot;who did not feel safe to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":116217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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