For the young and for the brave - Editor Future Employee Review

2.0
Dec 19, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

If you’re beginning your media career, Future is a great company to join. It has some amazing brands across print, digital and the web. The company culture invokes a silicon-valley start-up feel: hard working, passionate and with free food. If you’re young and don’t have dependants, it’s an amazing place to work and to learn. Latterly, through acquisition, the firm has grown too.

Cons

Future is also a great company at which to end your career. Like silicon-valley start-ups it’s profits come at the expense of job security, pay and prospects. Agile means getting two people to do the job of five; lean means no budget; efficiency means constant reorganisations and round after round of redundancies. Meagre margins mean the company is forever looking for innovative ways to do more with less. Bottom line: If you’re young, join and learn. If you’ve got kids, the lingering spectre of redundancy eventually becomes unbearable. Whatever your age, keep your CV fresh at all times.

avatar
Future Response
9y
Thank you kindly for taking the time to write a review here - we really appreciate it. Your positive feedback is warmly received and we think its great that our working environment is attractive for ambitious junior talent. We're sorry to hear that you felt your job-security was at risk as the company constantly evolves to stay ahead of the curve. We are very honest with the fact that we move quickly and we need to always be cost-effective and innovative but we would not want this to come at the expense of people feeling secure in their role and engaged in the work they are doing. Thank you for your feedback on this matter. We recently introduced a new company-wide profit share scheme so that every single one of our employees has the opportunity to share in our success and that recognises everyone's hard work contributes to our bottom line. We have recently acquired two businesses and are excited to add these new brands to our portfolio. We are always looking ahead and hope that all of our team are on the journey with us and feel engaged in the roles they are doing.

Explore other reviews about Future

5.0
Jan 15, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good pay Great benefits Cares about work-life balance

Cons

Sometimes makes poor hiring decisions to fill roles

1.0
Jan 12, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

shiny looking website they spent an exuberant amount of money on

Cons

They exploit their employees ferociously. If you love yourself or your life - do not work for this company. Clients - don't sign up! They do programs and pretend it's custom. They spend hundreds of thousands to hire new shiny CEOs but pay their coaches around $40k/year to maintain 100 clients. You are not special - they just put up a lot of metrics to pretend to make you feel that way. No coach can actually connect with 100 clients and write a personalized program. That's why the "management" pushes coaches to use as many templates as they can. They do big lay offs of any coaches who don't want to maintain 100+ people. They also are actively working to use any/all Apple Watch data to sell and use in any way they can monetize. So DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR APPLE WATCH DATA. It's smoke and mirrors and not anything actually useful (especially for the pricepoint they are asking!)

See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All