Has gone rapidly downhill over time - Anonymous employee Future Employee Review

1.0
Sep 25, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Central Bath offices Casual dress code Some really talented, friendly and genuine people work there

Cons

Constant rounds of redundancies Company seems obsessed with replacing experienced staff with graduates Nigh on impossible to get promoted unless you work in sales or are in the "higher management clique". Terrible salaries in most departments, huge discrepancies in salary within teams leading to low morale and resentment. Most departments are understaffed leading to high stress and burnout. Most managers are there for the money but don't actually want to manage people - poor performance often goes unchallenged and becomes a burden to the remaining team members.

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Future Response
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Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts regarding your time at Future. We are very fortunate to have an extremely talented and impassioned workforce in such a central location. As is well known, Future has been on a journey of transformation over the last few years, which has required us to make difficult decisions and reshape our organisation. We have come a long way on this journey and now look forward to growing and evolving the business. With said growth comes more exciting opportunities, which we actively share internally on a weekly basis. We also offer a generous employee scheme to encourage employees to share these opportunities within their personal networks. At Future we also offer industry leading employee benefits which we are extremely proud of. Thanks again for your comments, we wish you the very best.

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