Pros
- Some good events - Has won some awards - 2 decent company parties each year
Cons
- Terrible/ non-existent development opportunities, you have to fight and struggle for any sort of training, guidance, mentoring, promotional opportunities - No recognition of talent and plans to keep them. There is a high turnover rate, possibly due to a misplaced arrogance that Clarion has. They don't appear to realise how lucky they are to still have some of those talented, loyal, dedicated people there. Have been blatantly told that there was no career progression because of the function working in ... limited ways for people to move sideways in the business. - HR is horrendous. There is no support offered, especially for serious matters. Know of cases referred to HR about medical diagnosed stress and nothing was done, similarly cases of sexual harassment be recognised and again, nothing changed in the working environment. I know of cases of gender discrimination be raised and the response was beyond poor. - There is a drugs culture among some of the portfolios and it seems that partaking in this, and drinking wins you favour. There is a sense of an old boys club in some parts of the business. - A company which is unrealistic in the 'formula' it applies to the work e.g. the headcount to number of shows (despite the shows being wildly different in their requirements), the targets which are set year on year which do not take into account any historic data. This means that people go into the next year's events not even believing that this is achievable/ their bonus means nothing - I have seen so many demoralised people.