Frasers Group Reviews

Where do I begin? When Michael Murray took over as CEO he promised to focus on the people. And he did. He focused on making Frasers Group hell for the people. First he made everyone come in to the office 5 days a week with a threat of 'disciplinary action' if anyone refused. Then fingerprint censors were installed in the office to track everyone's whereabouts and making sure everyone did come into the office every day. It felt like being in prison. Salaries are well below market average, there are no benefits (except 20% off, but anyone can get that during all the campaigns being run throughout the year anyway) No sick pay. Minimum holiday allowance (20 days), no bonus or pay review (ever). If you're lucky enough to get a promotion it will take 6+ months from your line manager signs it off until HR has approved it (no back pay). In the meanwhile your line manager will make you work in the new position and keep feeding you lies that it will go through that month. You won't be allowed any salary negotiations. After the promotion has been signed off by HR they will tell you what you get and that's final.

I genuinely have never experienced a job quite like this one and not for good reasons. FG are masters at selling you the dream job, but the non existent benefits, working hours and office culture is absolutely appalling for what is expected of you. I was made aware there is a team in HR dedicated to improving the Glassdoor rating, because they know how bad it is, they try to disguise is as opposed to fixing the issues. The bullying in this place is mind blowing, I can’t believe watchdog aren’t into them already? Luckily I never experienced this badly myself, but I actually handed my notice in because of how I saw my fellow colleagues being treated. Our department was regularly told we need to “watch our backs” because higher management “doesn’t like the design department” ?!?! It often felt like they were going to get rid of the department and with redundancies happening company-wide, there was no sense of value or job security.