Express Solicitors reviews about "pay"

Pay transparency/equity above NQ level would be welcome as would salary increases in line with promotions for existing staff.

Base pay is a little low

No benefits for employees. Poor pay. Horrible management. Toxic environment. Not good for career development. I would recommend to anyone especially graduates who they target to not go for a job here. It’s a toxic environment and they do not give back to their employees. The work life balance is horrid.

Low pay, disregard for employee health, demanding with no reward or support, undervalue their employees resulting in a high staff turnover

Lower end of pay scale

toxic office culture. supervisors who gossip about people on their team to other team members. Made to feel bad for being ill. Development given to people who cause lots of issues in the office and are known to management for causing issues but others are not allowed to develop. Constantly brining in new employees but not developing others. Claim client care is everything but don't have the systems in place to allow employees to give proper client care and then employees are left with angry clients. Major issues in the NCT structure. Seem to care more about retaining clients and getting their commission so will sell dreams to clients. Again causing client care issues. A lot of lit assistants and exts are from a BAME background but the partners do not reflect this. Odd working hours, 8:30 to 5:30 for some, unsure why it isn't 9 to 5 for all. No Christmas holidays anymore - whilst the reason is understandable still seems strange when most other firms still offer this.

The sickness policy is abysmal, offering 5 days a year of paid sick leave and beyond that unpaid/SSP if entitled to it (compared with my partner's workplace offering 13 weeks full pay and 13 weeks half pay) so if you have any disabilities or chronic health problems, expect to lose pay. Any time off needed for appointments must be made up working overtime, something I have not experienced in any other job. As a result I cannot in good faith recommend working here to anyone with chronic health issues. Working from home is a 50/50 split with everyone expected to still work in the office half the time, despite the fact that the job can be done fully remotely, for seemingly no reason beyond upper management doesn't want people working from home that much.

After three months at Express Solicitors, I was already dreading the commute to work. Not because of the workload or upcoming deadlines, but because I found the environment toxic and isolating. My manager regularly belittled me and made me feel stupid for asking questions. If you’re not one of their favourites, expect to feel excluded and unsupported. I often spoke more with other departments than my own team. I would also hear my manager talk about other team members behind their back so I can only imagine what they were saying about me. The office isn't as bad as other reviews make it out to be. You can tell the company have invested a lot of money into it and it is fit for purpose, but the parking situation is poor. You need to arrive by 7:30am at the latest to get a space. Pay isn't great, and management’s lack of trust and empathy made an already demanding job even harder. I started applying elsewhere within months as I was unable to see a future in such a negative culture.