Does IKEA offer dental insurance?

Pros

Great medical/ dental benefits, work life balance, 401k, vacation and holiday pay

Cons

Typical varying retail schedule incline weekends

Pros

Pay was excellent, as well as benefits (health, dental, vision, retirement plan), lenient schedule and lenient management.

Cons

Managers don’t always have your best intentions at heart. Administration and management will make it known to you that you’re on their radar. Sloppy training and laughable approach to accountability.

Advice to Management

Given the generous pay, IKEA managers’ incentives are lucrative with little consideration for their workers. Managers should be facilitating professional growth of their workers and go through rigorous leadership training. The high turnover rate of workers is a testament to the managements poor leadership and juvenile handling of accountability, professionalism, and thorough training. Management also encourages a corporate hazing culture that fosters office politics and, as a result, devalues the workplace and discourages merit based recognition and growth.

Pros

Flexible schedule and receive benefits such as medical coverage and bonuses.

Cons

Low yearly increment for full-timers.

Pros

Great medical, dental, life insurance and vacation time

Cons

THE PAY! The work demands, the support for co-workers, the communication from management, internal politics, and growth

Advice to Management

IKEA Atlanta store leadership doesn’t communicate with their co-workers. Members within the leadership have their own personal vendetta against employees. Most departments are underpaid for their work even with the compression raise given. Leadership is not transparent about issues at the store. There is a strong lack of respect between co-workers and leadership. An outside company who deals with employee communication is definitely needed. Or IKEA Atlanta needs to unionize.

Pros

Fantastic benefits from health insurance to dental, 401k

Cons

Lots of physical labor, easy to plateau

Pros

This is the place where you can get experience at an entry-level. You will receive tremendous amount of experience by wearing different hats and fast-pace environment. Benefits are great except for dental. For the record, there aren't very many companies that offer great dental insurance.

Cons

Living in a city with high living costs, working here is not very ideal especially with your role's amount of responsibilities. Even with given responsibilities, there isn't a very high chance of career growth.

Pros

Pay and benefits are decent for retail. Most significant benefits include health and dental insurance and an employer match 401(k) program through Fidelity.

Cons

Numerous reorganizations have left the company confused and looking for its own soul. The last reorganization was less than a year ago. All the 'new' (most of them aren't that new) managers keep hiding behind the excuse that they're new. In my experience many of the new managers are poor communicators, fail to inspire or support their coworkers, plan poorly, and some can be downright petty and spiteful. The company fears and rejects innovation and processes that would expedite service, improve the customer experience, and protect the company from legal trouble.

Advice to Management

Learn to want to listen and respond to the concerns of your coworkers. I say LEARN first because the desire to want to help and develop needs to be authentic, not just something you need to do, another checklist box for you to check. People see through it. Your action and inaction reveal how much or how little you care. If you take care of the coworkers, they will rise to the occasion and take care of the customer. Stop talking about the sales numbers so much. They're too big for most coworkers to wrap their heads around and it isn't motivating or informative. It's just another thing that shows your focus is on profit, not people.

Pros

The benefits and the pay are amazing!! I get full medical, vision, and dental insurance and PTO as a part time employee.

Cons

The management can be awful. I have great managers and awful managers.

Advice to Management

Please train people well before you send them to the floor.

Pros

There's many benefits for working for IKEA; 40 hours of sick time that comes in at the 90 day mark, 72 hours or "holiday" time that renews every calendar year you get that day you start (they give 40 hours when you first start), and a mental health day 8 hours paid time off. They have full medical benefits, health, vision and dental. They do give you a bonus at the end of year if the store met goals that year, discount meals, you get access to a website called "working advantage" that gives you discounts towards anything you want from travel to movie tickets to electronics. Overall the benefits are amazing and competitive wages are fair, fair amount of growth and areas of recognition.

Cons

The meals aren't that great (meals are like middle school lunches at times). The environment within IKEA is that of high school teenagers; people often like to hangout within their circles, they talk to who they like and who they don't they try to talk down/spread rumors/ talk behind their backs about each other. Although the store is one place, each department within the store acts like their own store or own entity, meaning there is minimum cooperation between departments and if anything happens it would feel very much like every department for themselves. There isn't a good on boarding process that details every single benefit and how to access them or informing you of your job training. Any sort of constructive criticism is given back handed. Not all jobs are the same, if you work downstairs prepare to be worked like no other, if you work upstairs it depends on how good your department is in sales to be awarded luxuries such as sitting, even then you are guilt tripped into even thinking about sitting. Overall there is a lot of resentment built up in the store between coworkers, leaders and managers alike

Advice to Management

Encourage open and honest constructive criticism, not every manager is a good manager and not every coworker is a good coworker, but there should be room for growth but also accountability. Stop the favoritism, incompetence has worked its way up into management and it stems from favoritism.

Pros

Ikea has the best Benefits of any retailer. Very very generous time off! Great health dental vision, mental health, benefits. 2/3monts of maternity leave for men and women. Great 401k. IKEA bonus is great if your store bonuses. TACK! Account( additional 401k) the company create an deposits money (profit sharing) $3 meals for employees.

Cons

Department is low paid for the amount of work required. Department needs better raises and pay grades near warehouse forklift drivers who make about $25/hr starting.

Advice to Management

Ikea atlanta communation skills are horrible. Departments do not like to take ownership of issues and they will deflect responsibility. Some managers are extremely passive aggressive and will never tell you directly what the issue is. They will use an intermediary. Development for advancement is very lacking.