Ipsos Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Pros

Friendly Place and good work environment

Cons

Excessive work pressure and no work life balance

Pros

Get to meet new people around because of the high attrition rate of the company.

Cons

I have worked in this organization for 5 years, the points I mention below is with good amount of experience 1) On an average you work 12-13 hours a day and around 4-5 hours on weekends. On a good day it's around 10-11 hours, but this is rare. 2) Leaves are not granted easily and you have to fake a fever or family members death in order to get a leave. But then how many deaths and fevers can you fake. Every year, I could only take max. 4-5 days leave. 3) Your manager won't do or allot your work to anyone while you are on leave, so all your work while you are on leave is just pilling up. So once you are back from your leave - you are screwed!. The most common dialogue you'll get to hear is "Take leave but ensure that your work is not affected". 4) On joining everyone will fake that there's no workload and will make you leave at 7pm. It's only after a month you realise your manager's acting skills. 5) No senior management will speak on work life balance even after decreasing pulse (internal company survey) scores on work life balance. In the 5 years spent in the company, I have seen no steps taken, either by the HR or SL head. 6) The best way to get a long leave sanctioned is to get married.

Pros

Culture, People, Work life balance is fine mostly.

Cons

Less learnings. Very less to no bonuses. You will stay at what you were earning for years before you move on. Good remuneration when you join but the growth is extremely slow and work gets monotonous. Some teams are good but mostly the teams do not appreciate your work. No additional benefits are given and poor policies.

Pros

Very helpful colleagues. You will learn how to act on intense work pressure.

Cons

No views/suggestions taken from Employees when timeline for a deliverable is set with the client, lot of manual work with data exploration using excel, hard work will be appreciated only if you believe in politics & oiling your manager( not on your academic or professional experience), people are very much interested in your personal life so no professional culture, package is way too less compared to the fact that you have to be available 24*7 which means no work life balance. kind of dictatorship works here. also they will make you work late night and not even provide a proper cafeteria to feed yourself and pick up & drop facility to ensure safety of their colleagues, especially for women.

Pros

It has a healthy work atmosphere. Colleagues are very friendly. They provide proper training for freshers.

Cons

Very hectic times sometimes. No work life balance. There are very less opportunities for growth for an employee.

Pros

Good team and work culture

Cons

too much stress/work. No work life balance

Pros

Good range of clients Salary on time Good office infrastructure Brand value Great exposure in terms of innovative research designs Mostly no working weekends, not encouraged to take work on weekends You end up working independently mostly due to the work pressure, so you get interact a lot from the client and learn from them directly

Cons

No value for human efforts by some seniors No work life balance at all Nobody to really guide you or add value to your work, just supervision on deliverables...no brainstorming Poor appraisals

Pros

Supportive higher officials and felt like family.

Cons

Sometimes little bad work-life balance.

Pros

Work-life balance is good. but weekend pressure always be there

Cons

For the beginner, this is the good company to learn.

Pros

Nothing, okay maybe the office location and a foosball table

Cons

Horrible Work Culture, no work life balance, managers will shout at you and hurl sexist remarks