Avantages
- you may - but most people not - receive an ok package (this salary however may not be revised for years and company may fire you if they decide to hire cheaper resources - if your dignity is in your pocket (and you like to promote yourself undermining others), you can make your way into director position quite fast.
Inconvénients
1) Contract: - Generally low salaries - No bonus scheme promoting high performers - Very basic benefit package - Long working hours 2) Work conditions: - Unpaid Overtime and Bank Holidays - Need to be highly flexible (timewise) and ready to travel with short notice - Workload beyond capacity 3) Career Progress, Personal Development Plan and Performance Review: - No PDP process - No clear educational grant scheme subsidising external studies and courses - Salary review process not related to personal performance - No clear promotion process. Also newly created (usually senior) positions not advertised either internally or externally. 4) Management vs. Regular Employees relationship: - No clear Strategy, Mission, Vision, Values - Unhealthy proportion of highly paid executives vs. regular staff on substandard packages - Nepotism and Favouritism - highly paid roles, generous salary increases, promotions, non-work related expenses are usually reserved for groups of people who are either close friends, favourites or family. - No two-way communication - No Work Ethic - incidents of bullying, undermining staff and offensive language - Managers and Leaders don’t praise teams for their achievements but distant from them to eventually get credit for the team success themselves and allow their own further promotion - Management and HR not willing to address escalated employees issues. 5) Staff vs Staff: Not respecting of general work ethic rules and professional cooperation standards within business environment: - No culture of cooperation and communication, no teamwork, undermining others, no knowledge sharing practices (even if this is impacting business continuity) so one is consequently able to highlight own skills, become “irreplaceable” and consequently become a management favourite. - Unhealthy competition on flexibility and long hours worked for free to promote own value to the business - Conflicts related to unfair promotion - promotions not related to skills, education, experience or achievements but either to the fact of becoming a new management favourite or to threats of such favourite that in case he/she is not promoted further he/she quits the job - Stress caused by inability to deliver high quality work as a team due to high turnover and lack of experience, skills and relevant education of new hires. - Lack of manners (punctuality, offensive language, hygiene)