Arena International - Unprofessional atmostphere. Boiler Room culture, nasty work enviroment - Anonymous employee GlobalData Employee Review

1.0
Feb 24, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The opportunities for travel are good - although only give £15 a day for ALL food and drink.

Cons

Boiler room culture, nasty work environment, horrible offices - no kitchen or kettle. They seem to want to make money off staff. Worst pension scheme possible - nest. no perks. They work events to a 90% profit margin which means the quality of events they out put is very low, it's solely a money driven enterprise with no care for product, supplier relationships or customers. Management is outdated and chaotic. Staff openly rude and unprofessional and it's tolerated by management. Bullying nature. Extremely high turn over of staff. People 'fired' weekly. Lack of commercial and industry awareness. Aggressive negotiating tactics... I could go on.

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Thank you for your thoughtful review. We appreciate your suggestion about tools and are always looking to improve our processes so we take your feedback onboard. Please send any further suggestions on how we can improve to HRsupport@globaldata.com. GlobalData People Team.
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Cons

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