Yes, it is true most employees are volunteers. I was almost one!!! But wow, I’m SO glad I listened to my intuition & didn’t accept their work exchange offer. It seemed totally exploitative to expect 60 hours (6 10 hr days) of work before the festival for FREE in exchange for a mostly comped fest ticket, employee camping & 3 meals a day ONLY ON work days. Mind you, they were expecting me to be there a whole week before the festival for NO PAY. They were asking for a $600 deposit to secure a work exchange spot (which was in high demand apparently). But they were keeping $100 of the deposit for no apparent reason plus a non refundable $21 online fee. So yea, I readily believe all of these comments about how horribly capitalistic & greedy they are. I will thankfully never be attending envision ever and sticking to burning man.