The work is hard but fun, the team dynamic is awful - Food Service Worker IKEA Employee Review

3.0
Sep 1, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Great pay and benefits, nice cafeteria with cheap food and a wide selection, game room, fumoir and a massage parlor (Ikea pays 30 CHF on all massages)

Cons

Hard, exhausting, fast paced work (as always in Food Service) Very small work space in Bistro (leads to tension) Most of the team is lovely, management is great but there are a couple of people that ruin it for everyone. Constant bickering, nagging, micromanaging, sometimes downright insults. Spreading lies behind people's backs and no one stands up for eachother. Unbearable to work in, not professional at all. New management has been trying to solve this for months but Ikea's policies make firing people incredibly hard even if they are not suited to customer facing work at ALL.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Jun 16, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good work environment Pay is good Job keeps you busy

Cons

Lack of communication with leadership and coworkers. Leadership seems to have favorites Schedule takes too long to make Seems that there's people who would like the be full time or part time that are temporary right now aren't getting the positions. Feels like nepotism but maybe I'm wrong. Getting responses like you didn't get the job because you didn't answer your interview questions right just seems unnecessary The amount of drama happening is getting out of hand and leadership doesn't seem to care

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