Vantaggi
A lot of people in the company are at a similar age so it’s easy to make friends at work which makes life a bit easier.
Svantaggi
GLG needs to sort out their middle management: multiple members of management bully junior employees, adversely impacting their mental health, and HR has done nothing to resolve this. The private equity division is particularly toxic and promotions are only given to those who are well-liked by management, versus those who are actually achieving in the role - it’s very much one rule for one person, and another rule for others. The company also champions and promotes employees who are rude and unable to partner with their peers. We are at the point now where these toxic members of staff are reaching senior positions in the business, which is extremely concerning. GLG also fosters a really immature blaming/finger pointing environment, the smallest thing will happen and it is the end of the world - please deal with things more maturely. Employees are severely burned out. This has been raised to management yet, instead of actually doing something about it, management decides to dissolve their scheduling team and give more work to those who are burned out (with no warning and no compensation change). Unfortunately having “more client ownership” and “360 servicing” won’t help employees pay their bills! To top it all off, the company has inflicted a three day office policy upon staff, which is a real slap in the face for those tenured employees who have head minimal pay increases and progression in the company, and the company offers no flexibility.