Too much cronyism / favouritism / difficult work life balance - Anonymous employee Hays Employee Review

1.0
6 Mar 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great training for anhyone with no prior recruitment experience

Cons

My own personal experience left an extremely sour taste in my mouth. Despite having my first child and looking for a work life balance, my director still expected me to work late nights & sacrifice time with my child, despite the fact I was a successful biller in the office and I worked extremely hard during the working day. This is straw that broke the camels back and left to me leaving. There were senior managers who seemed untouchable no matter their performance or inappropriate behaviour due to the fact they were in the pockets of their directors. The KPI management was onerous, even if you were a senior member of staff & billing well.

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Hays Response
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Thank you for your review. We’re sorry to hear you didn’t have a good experience returning to Hays - it can certainly be difficult and we don’t always get it right but we want to support parents at Hays. Are you open to a discussion with Trisha Brookes, Director of People and Culture, to help us learn and improve?

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