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A Poor Start to the Working World - Business Development The Write Research Company Employee Review

2.0
May 4, 2017
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Pros

- Friendly Culture in the New Business and Research Teams - Good Team Leaders

Cons

When I started, straight out of University, I had a great manager and a great Managing Director; both of whom had a passion and desire to see me succeed in my role and in my career. However, with changes in the business, my hiring manager and MD left the business, and things went rapidly downhill. Whilst our team leader was excellent, there was little communication nor direction from the top, and very little investment or trust in the team. What was even worse was being promised that our team would be looked after, and backed all the way - only to be cut, and laid off in the end. This was further compounded by a new job, which was in effect the same as the one I was already doing, being offered on the same day as our redundancy. To me, it seemed like the entire redundancy plan was just to hack staff costs, and instead of investing in new talent, it was simply disregarded. Ironic given the nature of the company.

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The Write Research Company Response
9y
Commercial Director - Thank you for your feedback, and I do appreciate that this will have been a frustrating experience for you. As with all businesses in our sector we are constantly reviewing our operating model to anticipate changes in the external market. Unfortunately, this does mean that in order to invest we sometimes have to make difficult decisions that can lead to the removal of some roles that had been previously required. We work very hard to minimise the impact of such changes and as you identify we do our best to find suitable alternative roles for people. Sadly this isn’t always possible as was the case in your circumstances. If you have any ongoing concerns I would welcome discussing this with you, either by way of a telephone call or in person. In the meantime thank you once again for your feedback, I sincerely wish you all the best in your future endeavours.

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Cons

Traffic can be quite bad on Mondays so it can sometimes prove a long commute potentially missing a parking space which can be quite hard to find if the little high street is really busy.

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The Write Research Company Response
10y
Alison Ettridge - Really pleased that you are enjoying your time with us. The team is great – diverse, fun and really open for change and the impact they can have on the business. We have a great client base who are also equally committed to their project teams – a real testament to the people we have and the fantastic work they deliver. Re parking – I wish I had an immediate solution. Perhaps we could implement a car share? Or more flexible hours on a Monday particularly? Thank you also for your advice – please keep communicating what you want and need from us to be a happy engaged workforce – the door is always open! Thanks for the review :-)
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