Not a nice place to work - Anonymous employee CauseForce Employee Review

1.0
Feb 23, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There are some caring genuine people who work here, it is a shame management are not part of those people

Cons

Do not believe the recent reviews written towards the end of 2014 as basically a 'strong' suggestion was made to some current employees that they write something positive on this site to get the rating up as the genuine ones prior were causing the rating to drop. This along says so much about this company. They position themselves as a 'charity' but they are actually an event management company that charge Charities a lot of money to conduct events that hopefully raise some money for Cancer research organisations. The funds’ being raised is decreasing each year but the fee charged to conduct the events isn't. The Directors are still on their 6 figure salaries even if the charities lose money. Management here do not care about their employees, they appear to initially but many see in a very short period of time that they are more about money for themselves than they are about raising money for the charities they represent. They do not empower their staff at all hence they have many staff leave or get sacked every month. In the time I was there (less than a year) there was a 100% turnover in actual numbers, which means in excess of 55 staff left in a staff of less than 50, shocking staff turnover and managers do not care nor do they try and help by being leaders. Sir Richard Branson once said" Train your people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to". This company is so far from this quote it is unbelievable. In business, companies that want to survive will put caring, training and development of staff first. So unless this company changes (and doesn't just falsify reviews) it will not last another 3 years.

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CauseForce Response
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**BE ADVISED** The accusations in the review above are NOT ACCURATE and are opinion-based. To correct the misinformation above, you may like to know that: CauseForce is a world-leading event production firm who works directly with charities to help them raise money for their mission. 100% of funds raised by our participants goes directly to our beneficiaries who pay for the cost of the event and invest the funds into their core cancer programs. We, along with any vendor who provides service to these cancer hospitals, take a flat-fee to plan, market, and safely execute the event. Since 2002 we've worked hand-in-hand with the world's leading Cancer hospitals across Australia, Canada, The US, and in the UK. The funds raised through our events have and will continue to change the way humans treat this disease around the world. We embrace people who work hard, and our values as a company reflect that. We encourage helpful and accurate reviews on this site.

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Cons

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1.0
Feb 22, 2014
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Pros

the salary was decent. apart from the that, there were no benefits, processes changed constantly and seemingly on a whim, and management was extremely unprofessional. So if you just need income, then this might work for you.

Cons

Highly, HIGHLY unprofessional. The managing director told me that she felt "like a retard." My direct boss asked a room of employees how her butt looked in her pants. We were given quotas without working laptops of phones. Id liken it to a high pressured sales job, without the salary or commission of a high pressured sales job. Hours were very long and even if you work remotely, there is a fair amount of micro-management. everything is done as cheaply as possible, so be prepared for your office equipment, electronics, you name is - to break constantly. I also question the ethics of management. After hiring a salaried team, management then asked employees to sign a contract that would make them hourly instead of salary. Sounds like a bate and switch to me.

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