William Reed Reviews

Location is depressing and a pain. There is a lack of real concern for employee progression and myself and other employees feel trapped, rather than inspired. It's also all about the bottom line for these guys. One or two 'lifers' - who will stay here as they live locally or it is convenient. More interest in events than publishing or quality training. Also lots of the HR decisions dubious due to covering tracks and managing hiding why most of our colleagues have departed. Lots of redundancies to get a bit of extra cash in when necessary. You are a number, not a person. They even started charging for coffee once they realised it was popular with staff. They give with one hand, but they make us feel subservient. It doesn't take much to be a good employer. Unfortunately, these guys are good at presenting themselves as good employers, not being that.

* Senior management not willing to welcome innovation or new ways of working (despite processes/programs being old and outdated/events not making the money they should be) * Lack of training / culture of teaching within the team. Everyone so overworked and short staffed that there's no room for teaching, which is very clear in those in analytical roles where previous knowledge is expected/required. Lots of mistakes made on analytical side of business yet no training offered to help these colleagues better themselves. * Biased management, favouring ideas of those they like over those that make practical sense for the business. * Chaotic ways of working. Hardly any solid processes in place. * Due to high levels of turn over only 1 colleague has sound knowledge of the core programs being used, therefore if something goes wrong with it there is an onaslaught of requests to that person, creating a bottleneck effect. * Attitutude of 'we've always done it this way', with outdated ideas and no budging on them. * An archaic hierarchy where those with no knowledge on marketing would make marketing decisions, causing ill advised paths to be taken. * Huge workloads, short ldeadlines (this is the way of events but this is particularly true here). * Lack of synchronisation between neighbouring teams: sales, ops and marketing always at odds with one another. Seems like these problems are long embedded. * Belligerent colleagues whose behaviour was overlooked/ignored despite multiple complaints, as they were an essential team member. * Under staffing, only 1 member in raphics/art department - again creating a bottle neck.