Vantaggi
The High Street shops are just around the corner.
Svantaggi
Loads of senior people just passing the time with their slippers under the counter, banking on the generous pension allowances by the firm. Senior UK mgt have lost touch with the guys on the shop floor. On the shop floor itself, there has been a brain drain following the numerous redundancies where jobs have been replaced by poor staff in Bangalore or by those who simply walked away having had a complete loss of faith in how things have progressed.. Lots of managers at Maidenhead are very poor, really poor - the immediate thing you notice is that many of them are not even skilled in the field they are managing. More interested in working from home and I will give you odds against you won't find one working in the office on a Friday once the pandemic is over. I would consider the majority of them unemployable for any reputable company elsewhere. So many re-orgs at Maidenhead that I have lost count and it has got embarrassing. Job redundancies in the command centre last year (redundancies for those who saved the company from the 2017 Ransomware Attack) and the thank you gift is losing your job and the work given to incompetents in Bangalore instead (Good Luck with that), Redundancies have occurred in all floors of the department in 2020..The Danish arm of the company is really good but the UK Management has been very poor since our CTIO left the company in 2019. Replaced by a man overseas who has still not visited our premises in Maidenhead and who has outsourced work to India and many at Maidenhead are disgruntled and looking to leave via paid redundancy at the next re-org - which btw is now a biannual event at this company. At this firm you more likely to be invited to a redundancy meeting than the Christmas Party. New management seem to have graduated from the school of David Brent. In my team we lost a great manager for a newbie plum with all the buzz-words but no action. In his first team meeting with us - he put up a photo of a flock of seagulls flying in formation on the overhead projector and pointed to that and said that's how we need to work. We all cracked up laughing, some needed medical attention. Take a poor manager to a disciplinary for lying and shafting you with the issue when he was the one culpable and you find out the system is rigged because HR is corrupt too (Yeah HR has been outsourced too) .. Step out of line and point the inadequacies in the processes or mgt and your cards are marked and they will get rid of you somehow soon. Recognition of your worth is how far you are willing to cosy up with management. Promotion is based on who you know. There is more nepotism practiced in this firm than most private family firms. Enjoyed the first couple of years when we had something beautiful growing but the new management lackeys have destroyed it with their incompetence...Shame - this used to be a good company to work for. Bet this post gets a lot of helpful votes !