On a rapid decline - Senior Account Executive GingerMay Employee Review

1.0
1 Feb 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Average progression opportunities - A glass of Prosecco and maybe a funded social if you’re lucky - Great team, great networking

Cons

- Extreme burnout in junior staff - Weekly meetings on how members aren’t meeting capacity and constant criticism - Negative morale throughout the company - Favouritism - If you don’t mould into their formula, they will target you to leave - Mental healths walks, but not one has time to take them - “Monthly socials” maybe a brainstorm breakfast but you’d have to work late to make up the time - They don’t care you if you work out of hours - Poor benefits

GingerMay Response
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Thank you for sharing your feedback. We’re deeply concerned that you feel this way and we’d strongly encourage you to speak with your line manager or any of our director team to discuss these points further. We take great care to ensure a strong work life balance for our team, and focus a great deal of time and resource in ensuring individual workloads are manageable and supported during peak periods. We have reviewed our Toggl time management data for January 2024 and cannot see more than 5 hours logged of overtime across the whole team. This is being addressed directly with those individuals affected to ensure they have the support they need on accounts. We do not ask, expect, or encourage team members to work out of hours, so if this is happening we need to address it straight away. It is difficult to do this if the query is raised anonymously and not brought to our direct attention, or logged inaccurately on our internal time tracking software. Our benefits package is reviewed regularly and comparable to other businesses in our industry. Flexibility has always been at our core. We put an emphasis on work-life balance for all through flexi-working patterns and work-from-anywhere schemes. As you will know, we regularly take onboard team feedback via anonymous surveys and offer enhanced / accelerated benefits that are directly linked to productivity, loyalty, and personal aspirations. If you have any suggestions on company benefits, we’d love for you to bring this to us in an appropriate forum. We support all of our team members equally through a system of meritocracy, rewarding individual hard work and commitment. Individual performance is mapped out against defined competencies and expectations for each role. We are open to feedback so please do speak to your line manager if you have any further pressing concerns.

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Cons

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Cons

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