Smoke and Mirrors - Anonymous employee Move Language Ahead Employee Review

There were unfortunately many, many cons. The work culture thrives on manipulation, highly volatile emotional leadership, insecurity, and need for control. Strategic planning hardly exists in a company that has such a wide, global impact on youth. Employees working with the children don't always have the proper background checks, yet this company gets away with these safe-guarding faults year after year putting young students in danger. Salaries are incredibly low, even for the UK and Europe, and promised promotional conversations are avoided with full-time business operational employees to keep these costs low and CEO salary at a maximum. Employee benefits are easily overgone to spend more money on smoke and mirror events for their hundreds of VIP clients. Corners are cut frequently and in abundance to uphold an image of perfection to clients. Their branding and marketing is well done, again upholding an image of success while the reality behind the scenes is constant chaos. Without a thoughtful organizational structure and HR team (yes, this company has NO Human Resources, so bias is plenty and employees remain unsupported in so many issues) this company survives only through the consistent fighting of fires rather than doing necessary strategic work and investing in people, innovation, and future-thinking to transform their services from empty offers and burnt out employees into a highly impactful business of growth. There is so much potential, yet the company culture is old, stubborn, and ingrained, lacking the environment to really support positive change.