In the early days, I enjoyed my time here, the company felt financially stable, there wasn’t too much pressure and it felt like a nice working environment. However, it all started to change over the past year when I can only assume there was financial troubles. From then onwards, this company was built on mass redundancies every year, downsizing the team then building back up. During my time here I saw over 20 people leave either through being let go or leaving on their own accord. This is the highest staff turn over in any company I have worked for. It must also be said that there were multiple people that had to be written off work for poor mental health triggered by work place stress. Relevance is horribly toxic, senior members would turn on juniors to save their back, everyone is spoken to disgustingly, there is no gratitude and there is no hesitation for your own team members to take advantage of you. You are also extremely micromanaged and Relevance introduced extremely narrow and strict time constraints to produce any work, turning the company into a sweatshop. This stopped any form of creativity, put unnecessary pressure on staff and ultimately led to a poor standard of work that nobody could be proud of. Senior management and the shareholders and greedy and do not value their staff, they just view them as cash in their pockets. I was extremely let down here, after over two years of hard work for this company, they treated me abysmally up until my final day. I did not get one thank you or goodbye from any of them, even members of my own department… There is absolutely no culture here, no one goes into the office, they organise nothing social which is in line with their views that we are just their to work. Still to this day, long after I left, I am still hearing that senior management continue to slander me and to talk in a discriminatory manner to fellow colleagues. I am now in a really lovely new job who value their staff as people and highlights how immoral and toxic Relevance was.
