The company is owned by private equity, and it shows in all the worst ways. Any meaningful concern for employee wellbeing, development, or work–life balance has been stripped out in favour of short-term gain. It no longer feels like working for an organisation you want to support or see succeed.
Senior leadership is deeply disorganised, leaving middle management to constantly firefight and clean up the fallout. Day to day, it feels like survival mode: just getting through the workload with no real expectation that things will improve. There’s little evidence (or confidence) that additional resource or meaningful support will be put in place.
What makes it worse is the waste of talent. There are highly capable, committed people here, but the environment is eroding their effectiveness and morale. It feels like everything around them is steadily falling apart.
Company-wide communication only reinforces the disconnect. In meetings, the CEO openly credits himself for the company’s progress, while ignoring the reality that employees are effectively working unpaid overtime just to keep things afloat. The imbalance between workload and staffing is obvious to everyone, internally and increasingly to clients, who are beginning to notice the cracks.
It’s also becoming difficult to bring in new hires with any sense of pride. Onboarding feels more like damage control, trying to conceal how dysfunctional things really are rather than welcoming people into a well-run organisation.
Despite having a predominantly female workforce, the company offers below-average maternity pay that does little to support employees at a critical time. More concerningly, previously available female-focused benefits (such as paid IVF support) were removed with little to no explanation, directly impacting women’s health and wellbeing.
