Was a great company to work for, not now - Customer Support Sage Employee Review

1.0
14 Aug 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pension - and other good benefits. Colleagues - your teammates make it bearable On site facilities. Csr days There are good things about sage like the above but sadly the cons outweigh the pros.

Cons

Tech support are amazingly understaffed and overworked. It takes months to get new technicians on smaller specialised teams and the people waiting for new staff to help them are seriously overworked and stressed. The staff many moons ago were known nationwide as being the friendliest and best support people out there, are now battling huge queues, forced to push sales leads down people's throats as they have sales targets and the surveys that complain about the queues or the products count against the technicians. If you're on support, it's like you're seen as second class citizens, overworked and underpaid. Some bias there too, some of the managers are just yes people and if you raise concerns you're told you are "negative". If you're not a yes person too then you have a target on your back. It's great having csr days but if you can't attend as there isn't enough staff to Man the phones, whereas non phone based staff can go off as they like. Though there was a time when they let a lot of phone based staff off for the csr day, which caused huge queues and immense stress to those who remained. It's so sad to see the place fall so far. While yes a company should make a profit, but not to the detriment of the staff. What did Richard Branson say? Look after your staff first and they'll look after the customer. Not if you're in sage customer services.

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Sage Response
8y
Thanks for your review. It's great to read the benefits were well received as well as you enjoying the facilities. We are investing heavily in our office locations to ensure our fantastic colleagues work in exciting and pleasant environments and the Newcastle office, the spiritual home of Sage, is about to undergo a major refurbishment. The Sage Foundation, with its 5 days volunteer days for every colleague, is always well received by our people, charities and our communities alike. We always come across so many professional colleagues who do a great job supporting our customers. This involves not only solving problems but providing great advice and being commercially savvy enough to identify new products and services that help customers build their business. Our best Technicians do this extremely well, ensuring that even complex customer needs are fully met. I am sure you are aware we are striving to be a high performing team who operate efficiently and deliver great customer experiences. The overwhelming majority of our Customer Service Technicians do this well and achieve their objectives, this is clear from the superb customer satisfaction and first call resolution scores our customers award us. There is absolutely no doubt that the Technician role is a demanding one where you need to be creative, resilient and customer focused, however the opportunity to mature, develop and build a successful career is fantastic. The quality and success of our CS Technicians is demonstrated by how many go on to build very successful careers within Sage across a whole variety of functions. Many progress into Marketing, Product Development, Technology and Sales. Thanks again for your feedback and wish you well.

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Sage Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We’re sorry to hear about the challenges you’ve described around leadership continuity, targets, growth, and ways of working. We recognise the impact that stability, clear accountability, and achievable goals can have on the day-to-day experience of our colleagues, particularly within sales and customer-facing roles. We shall share your feedback with leaders for their visibility as we continue to evolve how we support our teams to truly thrive at work. If you have any additional insights to share, please leave us more feedback via our internal Always Listening forum or through your manager. Thank you again for sharing your perspective.
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