Vantaggi
Casual dress, flexible working hours, senior managers and owner are accessible in an open plan office, you get decent holiday entitlement. The offices are centrally located in Birmingham so near train stations and bus routes. The toilets have those Dyson hand dryers.
Svantaggi
The lack of a clear business and editorial strategy created a huge problem across the company with targets and focus constantly changing to the point that no one really understood what the long-term plan for the business was. This resulted in poor leadership from the top down with regular bickering among senior managers as they struggled to understand what their remit was. This created a high turnover of staff and low morale, which was among the worst that I've experienced in my professional career. Poor salaries were a major issue with little opportunity for increasing. No on-the-job training was given for roles that required it, however criticism of competencies was rife. A number of us found the owner to be unstable with seemingly random sackings causing general unease among staff.
