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Toxic environment - Anonymous employee Live Nation Entertainment Employee Review

1.0
Sep 10, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Based in Oxford Circus, near tube station

Cons

People appear institutionalized No concept of work/life balance Not really a 21st century organisation Heads down, get on with the work but not open to change No real perks - just two free tickets a year Culture is not great and very unprofessional Heads tend to talk badly about other colleagues openly

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Live Nation Entertainment Response
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Thanks for your feedback, and I am sorry to read your experiences with us weren't all been good. I would like to encourage you to come talk to me, or the previous HR team that you dealt with when you worked with us. We don't hear negative comments so often and therefore is of real interest so we can fix it going forward. Regards the perks, we guarantee 2 free tickets to all employees and this is an amazing benefit - on top of that it is very usual for our people to get to see loads more shows throughout the year. On work: life balance we know that summer season can get very busy and people work so hard, but we do make sure we balance that out across the year - for example with our 2 weeks extra holiday break each winter and now also rolling out our unlimited leave policy across our UK businesses. Brian Newman, VP HR International.

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