Bonia has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 59 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Bonia employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail and wholesale industry (3.5 stars).
- Talented colleagues
- Lots of potential
- Improving product
- Creative director with a vision
Cons
- Toxic and demoralizing workplace
- Unspoken expectations / Lack of open communication
- Tone-deaf management and HR
- Processes are always changing with little communication
- Constant change of direction with little communication
- Inconsistent vision/mission from management
- Copy cat ideas with 'copy and paste' mentality
- Leadership turns blind eye to employees they don't personally like
- Leadership derails the efforts of their teams
Bonia Response
3y
Thank you for taking the time to leave us your feedback.
We appreciate hearing about your personal experience and thoughts on the company as a whole.
We are committed to creating a comfortable and collaborative environment for all our staffs so we’re sorry to hear about your bad experiences. Thank you for raising your concern about communication issue within the company. We are trying our best to work on better communication flow between all employees to avoid any communication breakdown. For instance, the company organized a townhall back in July this year, to focus more on open communication. In the event, the management shared about the company's past year achievement and directions moving forward. There was also Q&A session with the management. Employees are valuable assets to the company, and we take their efforts and contributions towards the company seriously. The team has recently reviewed and revamped the whole performance assessment process for all employees, and has included KPIs into the framework. This enable us to better assess and also to to appreciate and give credit to performing employees.
We encourage all employees to reach out to HR if they do have any concerns. HR has been taking proactive measures by having coaching session and counselling session to address employee grievances to improve the working experience for all employees.
Best Wishes,
HR
Laid back management Good for people who wants constant salary with no growth opp Updating next round with more cons Good and competent colleagues
Cons
Want new ideas but not willing to adapt New team of HR that did not bring new values to the company First in last out, where incompetent people holding the best portfolios, and will be persistent in rejecting new joiners' ideas to protect comfort zone
Bonia Response
2y
Thank you and we appreciate you taking the time to leave us your feedback.
We are committed in creating a collaborative environment for all our colleagues. Thus, we shall look into ways we can improve the warehouse department, ensuring best portfolios are shared among all warehouse colleagues. We encourage you to come to us to share ideas on improving warehouse portfolio, new ideas for new joiners as well as loyal old-timers colleagues with the best interest of customers, organisation and employees.
HR has been taking proactive measures to address employee grievances to improve the working experience for all employees. Thank you for your patience.
Best Wishes,
HR
- Great colleagues and capable people
- Pretty okay work life balance
- Former CD taught the team a lot
- Brands were moving somewhere good
Cons
- legacy mindset
- Management always disrupts to save face, very indecisive, not available always
- most management not experienced in the field and lack leadership
- blame game quite strong from top
Bonia Response
3y
Thank you for taking the time to leave us your feedback.
We appreciate hearing about your personal experience and are glad to learn that you had supportive colleagues.
We are committed to creating a comfortable and collaborative environment for all our employees, so we’re sorry to hear about your bad experience. We are working towards transformation and is bringing in more initiatives and learning and development opportunities to ensure employees are able to excel in their work. We have recently did a Job Description exercise to ensure alignment on work expectations. To provide a fairer and more accurate performance assessment, we have recently revamped the entire performance assessment process, which incorporated KPI as part of the system. The revamped performance assessment process has been rolled out this financial year.
Best Wishes,
HR
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According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Bonia employees rate their compensation and benefits as 2.7 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Bonia. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months.
43% of Bonia employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated Bonia 3.5 out of 5 for work life balance, 2.8 for culture and values and 2.8 for career opportunities.