Pretty standard for post uni - Audit Senior Bishop Fleming Employee Review

Some genuinely great people, and work/life balance and flexibility are generally good, though at times you will be expected to work overtime. Quite a few social opportunities to get involved in and room for growth overtime.

Colleagues have been made redundant with a shocking lack of professionalism or empathy. The behaviour from partners and leadership has been a rude awakening - the firm doesn’t care anymore about its people. Communication has been nonexistent. Staff are left to discover colleagues have gone only after the fact, while we're being told not to ask any questions and to carry on as 'normal' Meanwhile, workloads increase due to budget cuts and constant scrutiny from leadership, with no additional support for those left picking up the slack. MP and leadership seem incapable of admitting their mistakes, so the rest of the firm ends up paying the price instead. Redundancies are dismissed as ‘just change,’ which feels utterly tone-deaf in this climate. Given the uncertainty and stress being created across the business, the firm’s refusal to acknowledge the obvious systemic issues being faced is completely eroding trust in leadership.

There are genuinely great people across the teams who support one another when things get tough and during busier times and deadlines. When clear answers aren’t available from management, it’s colleagues who step in as sounding boards and provide the support that’s missing, particularly if you are more junior.

What began as a few ‘isolated redundancies’ has evolved into a dismantling of teams, with little regard for the people left behind to absorb the workload and deal with the fallout. There has been no meaningful reassurance, no visible oversight, and certainly no sense that the impact on employees has been properly considered. Communication between leadership and staff has been deeply inadequate, lacking not only clarity but also basic professionalism and empathy, with just the repeated justification of ‘on going business reviews’. More concerning is the firm’s failure to address those who remain. No genuine effort has been made to communicate openly or provide reassurance, leaving morale at its lowest point across teams and offices and creating a culture where people feel they are constantly walking on eggshells. It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the impression that the firm’s priority is not its people, but its profit margins and expansion plans - even if that means cutting teams in half. The real question is how anyone is expected to feel confident about their future in a business that appears so willing to let people go without warning? Costs are being cut across the board, clearly at the expense of staff, even so‑called ‘perks’ are being stripped back. There’s no real investment in people and no scope for growth unless it comes at zero cost. The business has lost its way, expanded too fast, and forgotten the values it was built on.