Hiding a toxic culture behind sweet-smelling soaps. - Anonymous employee Aesop Employee Review

This is by far one of the most toxic workplaces I've ever set foot in. Management are horrendous, HR are a joke, and the overall culture has an insidious undercurrent of misguided superiority. From the use of famous novelists, poets and philosophers' quotes on their bottles and walls, to their increasingly bland, homogenized architectural vision, it is clear that this company has lost its way, and has no qualms in taking real art and talent down with it. Aesop is based purely on image, attempting to convey culture and class through a narrow prism of what they define as being good 'taste'. The grossly conservative attitudes, unbridled (and unwarranted) attitudes of superiority, and general lack of humanity on a managerial level have led me to actively dissuade those seeking employment from looking here, particularly if they have any kind of genuine creative talent. It will be swallowed and regurgitated as some sick iteration of Aesop's 'values', and then turned into a meek, capitalist attempt to sell some overpriced handbalm.