Hays plc Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Hays plc full-time for more than a year

Pros – employee satisfaction, ok ok salary for freshers

Cons – teams badly affected by politics

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Hays plc

Pros – - Alot of young people
- Collaboration (due to the shared misery and lack of money)
- Training

Cons – - Only care about top 5% of the fee earners
- The rich get richer

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your employees and put them in their place of strength not necessarily where the company needs them.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Hays plc

Pros – , opportunities for progression if you are willing to work long hours and fit with company culture

Cons – Long hours, presenteeism culture , can be a "face fits" atmosphere

Former Employee – worked at Hays plc full-time for more than a year

Pros – good balance of structured training and on the job training.
Well established business
enjoyable staff culture

Cons – long working hours
Some parts of the business had a high turnover of staff due to pressure to meet KPI's

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Hays plc full-time for less than a year

Pros – Good starting salary, good motivation

Cons – High pressure to keep sales up

Former Employee – worked at Hays plc full-time for less than a year

Pros – Okay salary for a new graduate. Good benefits.

Cons – Standard practices were not followed - workers were sent into hospitals uncompliant, which meant that they did not provide the correct documentation to work (g passport, proof of address, references from past jobs). In a way, this equates to potentially a dangerous person having access to patient records. The management was poor -- a lot of the training was left down to an associate consultant. This resulted in mixed messages being thrown around about how to do a certain task.

Advice to Senior Management – Stick to the rules in order to prevent the law being broken and do not allow novices to train new starters.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Hays plc full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Decent pay, good people. Had a great time and would do it again if I had to.

Cons – None that are worthy of mentioning

Advice to Senior Management – None

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Hays plc full-time for less than a year

Pros – Good initial training
Real possibility to make a lot of money
Culture can be fun - but very male-oriented

Cons – Trapped in a monthly cycle
Never make as much as they promise you
Management shuffles are constantly occurring
Plateau after 6 months, very little development after that.
Huge Attrition rate of staff (circa 60% a year in some teams)

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to the employees more
Give a new strategy a little time before changing again.
Implement a real quarter by quarter career development plan

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Hays plc full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – People are nice, managers are easy to approach, always try to improve

Cons – Not many benefits for back office team

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Hays plc full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Worked with some great people when I first joined who realized things were going downhill and left.

Cons – Currently managed by some monkeys who dont have a clue on what theyr doing. Dumping all the costs into CAPEX from OPEX is not reducing the overheads. A bunch of con artists currently running the company into the ground and milking it for everything its worth.

Advice to Senior Management – Get somebody to manage IT who actually have some technical knowledge.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company