Poor Exec team, couldn’t run a bath - Account Management Key Travel Employee Review

1.0
8 Mar 2020
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Pros

None left. The morale, motivation and goodwill has been destroyed.

Cons

Truly the worst Executive team I have ever come across. Full of “experience” and “know it all” statements they failed to understand the business at all before making major changes impacting the customer experience and employee morale. Very poor leadership and people management they have had experienced managers in tears and feeling bullied when they are working as hard as they can to pacify customers in a very poor environment. They surely can’t be proud of themselves when valued employees feel that way. All talk and no delivery they fail to meet technology roll out timelines but continue to reduce headcount to make their budgeted cost savings only possible with the technology in place. Interestingly the Exec are having to help on reservations as they have reduced the headcount so much they can’t get through the backlog of emails from customers. Maybe getting rid of some of the poor performing Exec would have been a better idea. Key Travel was an amazing business, loved by employees until this Exec team was in place. They talk about big hearts and compassion but the reality in the business couldn’t be further from the truth. They offered voluntary redundancy and were oversubscribed, what else do they need to demonstrate how unhappy people really are in their working environment. Long standing employees now leaving without a job to go to because the unnecessary pressure is making them ill

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5.0
30 Apr 2024
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Pros

Key Travel has a very cohesive executive team that is committed to ensuring all aspects of the company strive toward category leadership . And, employees are among the most dedicated and passionate I have seen in my work experience. Communication is honest, frequent, and has a single goal in mind of enhancing the customer experience. There is also considerable energy to enhancing and optimizing the employee experience as well, to ensure retention, job satisfaction, and recruiting success. Considerable investments have been made in 24/7 teams, technology, and multi-channel contact methods.

Cons

A very competitive space, so balancing growth and investment with often changing market and people conditions can be a challenge. This is apparent with all travel businesses, at this time of increasing complexity in the industry and around the world.

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Hi there, thanks for your feedback. We agree our colleagues are excellent and at the heart of making Key a success. Our proprietary technology is built for this sector and award winning.
1.0
8 Apr 2020
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Wish I could come up with some but it’s frankly impossible.

Cons

Having been in this industry for a very long time, I’ve never come across an executive team that is more dishonest, untrustworthy and so blatantly obvious that they are all about their personal gains. It’s very disappointing because it could have been a great company that did great things. When I say ‘executive team’ I want to be clear that I’m speaking to the NA President and the Global CEO. They also brought their friends into the circle, but because of lack of space - and lack of giving a crap - I won’t mention them here. (You know who you are KB). This was seriously the most toxic and sexist environment I’ve ever worked in. That this type of behavior and overall working conditions can still exist in today’s environment - boggles my mind. A lot of very, very good and qualified people worked here who were run off because of the horrible working conditions. The two ‘new’ senior leaders completely changed the company - in a very negative way- very quickly and it’s a downright shame. Employees deserve much better. The customers deserve much better. It’s a sad outcome.

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