Vantaggi
- A handful of people are decent, hard working and trustworthy. - CSR days are brilliant. - free parking - good benefits such as buying extra holidays, sharesave, pension, salary sacrifice for new computers or mobile phones. - summer party always good fun - Christmas party and Christmas fair are great
Svantaggi
- slow to keep up with new technologies. Still getting to grips with the Cloud. - lots of people leaving and not being replaced, leaving remaining staff under huge pressure. The quality of the software suffers massively because of this. - brutal when the figures aren't looking great, people losing jobs on an almost rotational basis. Jobs being moved to Poland - team leads holding calibration sessions to basically compare colleagues against each other and decide who to pick on for the following few months (there has to be someone in each role due to a strongly recommended, but not forced, bellcurve system. This has lead to people trying to outdo each other so they look the best and dont become the 'chosen one', destroying any team spirit which might have been left. - horribly low staff morale. Constantly feeling like your job is at risk and wondering what on earth is being said about you in the secret calibration sessions. - pointless "catch up" sessions with leaders via skype, or worse still in the atrium, to give people information which could have been communicated on an email. - ask for a lot of feedback from staff but do precisely nothing with it. Anything negative is dismissed and brushed under the carpet. - team leaders lacking people skills and compassion, think everyone's lives revolve around Sage. - part time staff treated appallingly meaning they have little to no chance of progression, due to being kept away from big projects and discouraged from engaging in anything outside of their immediate teams. - staff brought in on fixed term contracts, given very little training then sacked when they start to struggle.
