BOWEN Group Reviews

4.0

75% would recommend to a friend

(32 total reviews)
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Shannon Bowen-Smed

88% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

BOWEN Group has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 32 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The BOWEN Group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Human resources and staffing industry (3.8 stars).

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32 reviews
1.0
16 Jun 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great community involvement, strong ability to provide temporary administrative resources to it's clients.

Cons

Lack of direction from any of the executive team, company tries to be everything to everybody instead of remaining focused at what they are good at, if you are friends with the executive you can get away with what ever you want (including not doing your job, spreading rumors, taking extended liquid lunches), the executive can never decide with a structure and stick with it for longer than a year, company certainly does not practice what they preach in terms of their core values, extremely poor hiring decisions have been made for very high profile roles within the organization, lots of great people have left this organization to move on to better things. Executive team has been in "business" for a long time but lacks any sort of common business sense.

2.0
15 Dec 2017

Difficulties from top down...

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

My Bowen co-workers were amazing and they seem to be able to adapt to the most adverse of situations.

Cons

Unfortunately the environment has changed for the worse due to one individual's visions. The environment became negatively competitive, high stress, and forced everyone to throw up their guard just to stay afloat.

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BOWEN Group Response
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Good morning, Thank you for sharing your feedback. Your insights are valuable for us to improve our company and our culture. It's a work in progress but we pulled through the recession and are experiencing a positive atmosphere in 2018! I couldn't agree more that BOWEN coworkers are pretty amazing! Wishing you all the best in your career endeavors. -Hayley Hayley Gislason Marketing Specialist BOWEN Workforce Solutions
1.0
23 May 2016

Egotistical and out of touch

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Like all work places there are some good people at Bowen to work with. Unfortunately, the good people leave or just check out because they realize it's a toxic environment and there are way better options out there.

Cons

Bowen talks a good game but in reality it's all about ego building for the executive team and CEO. There is no room for growth for employees. Bowen would rather hire externally than promote within. Likely to avoid promoting individuals that can see the cracks in the company. There is a lot of infighting amongst the executive team as well as senior management. There is no leadership within the company and the problem starts at the top. The CEO is nice but is incapable of making business decisions, dealing with conflict or sticking with a game plan. The executives constantly play the blame game. The see something shiny and they change direction. They treat staff like kids in a divorce, they are pawns in a bitter game. In the end the employees and clients lose out.

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