Lay offs - Boundless was acquired by an operating company that essentially bought POLS for scrap. A bulk of us were blindsided and terminated for being top earners (we were specifically told that performance was not the reason we were laid off). I always got back stellar performance reviews, and had a great working relationship with those around me. It simply boiled down to I made too much money (I was underpaid by industry standards fwiw). Leadership - Kees (current CEO not reflected here on Glassdoor) and team are at best completely disconnected from the business. There are alarming inefficiencies at all levels of the company, many of which could be turned around. But the amount of arguing, miscommunication and lack of process surrounding any business improvements result in a complete stall of progress. This trickles down to the director level pretty regularly, and the only leadership I could ever reliably count on working with me were my direct managers. Most of the time their hands were tied to make any meaningful impact. Poor outlook - It's pretty clear Boundless will be belly up within the next year or so. Internally they were losing partnerships left and right, they are bleeding money, and the OPM market is definitely on the decline from 2020. POLS/Boundless used to be the number one provider in the market, and has since continuously slipped behind competition that is also currently floundering. If I had to guess, Pearson "sold" POLS to Regent to make it Boundless simply to remove any obligations from severance and PTO payouts and call that a job well done.
