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Thank you for you review. We are striving to create a collaborative and inspiring environment for all our employees so I am sorry to hear you feel that way. As a growing company, receiving feedback is a priority in order to ensure a long lasting development and we will continue to find ways to improve. I would like to address a few of your specific points here.
No transparency: on top of the description of the role and responsibilities from the recruitment process and during the induction, each recruiter is provided with a yearly target letter that defines the performance expectations. This letter can be reviewed once a year to best reflect the needs of the business. If the expectations are not clear, there is always the opportunity to discuss it one to one with your lie manager.
No reasonable benefits: depending on what people consider as “reasonable”, Alten provides a private medical insurance, a pension scheme, a travel insurance, a maternity cover, a long-term sickness cover, a cycle to work scheme to name a few. Working from home was indeed not part of our practises before the pandemic, however we have now obviously implemented it and I am sure you will understand that it is not your place to speculate on what the company intends to do in the future on that topic.
Holidays: in the UK it is perfectly legal (and common practise) for employers to request their employees to take holidays if and when their offices are closed. So we don’t make it “seem like” we offer 24 days of holidays, our employees actually do get 24 days of holidays. The number of days we request our employees to take over Christmas varies from one calendar year to the other.
Discrimination: if you were the witness or victim of any form of discrimination, I invite you to contact our HR team immediately so that we can launch an investigation. These allegations are serious and we do not take them lightly.
Working culture: speaking in the name of someone who left the company to speculate about the culture is not something that we can take seriously and answer to. If you have any specific comments on the working culture from your point of you, I’ll be more than happy to receive and consider them.
Finally, we appreciate your advice to management but this, once again, cannot be taken seriously considering the lack of accuracy of your statements. To be very factual, today the people operating under a V.I.E contract are coming from different areas (France, Spain, Italy, Greece) and they represent less than 5% of our headcount. We actually pride ourselves in being a very multicultural organisation, having more than 35 different nationalities in the company.
In a nutshell, I can see that most of these topics are the fruit of a lack of communication and misinformation about the company. I actually identify this as an improvement opportunity.
Your review tells me that: although Alten is striving to make sure all necessary messages, processes and policies are communicated on the most accurate way, it seems important to keep on getting better at it.
On the longer run, I would advise you to tackle any issue/frustration at its ignition so that it does not become disproportionate.
