trying in areas, but totally missing the mark. start listening to your employees! - Mid-Senior Management Circana Employee Review

- leadership continue to treat us like idiots when it comes to changes in structure, redundancies etc. All done under the radar, with lots of 'convenient early retirements'. These seem to all be people who have been here a long time and are probably over paid as a result and the business wants to replace with people they can pay half the amount to. newsflash - they will do a poor job in comparison. So we're loosing a lot of history of knowledge which is irreplaceable. Just treat us like adults and give it to us straight - we'd respect you a LOT more. - benefits. we're sick of being told they are in line with other similar sized orgs in the UK. the sick pay and mat pay is shameful and is a core reason for many women not feeling they can choose to start a family as they would not be able to afford almost 3 yrs of full time childcare (until free hours kicks in). We know that our gender gap is not great and mat leave is one of the biggest drivers of this. I've seen presentations on all the activities being done to improve the gap, when they are ignoring the simplest fix. Give decent parental leave. Be the change needed in this space. - Clear favourites: the same names always rise to the top and get the opportunities. it's not always clear what they've done to deserve it either or are those who display behaviours that contradict our values. this is badged as 'succession planning' but what it means is when senior roles do come up, which isn't often, they are not advertised and someone interested and with relevant experience won't get the opportunity to apply. - running too thin: scaling back on people, being asked to reduce people budget every 6 months means we're not backfilling roles, and transferring additional work to people from those being made redundant and not giving them any compensation as a reward for this extra work. expecting us to pick up the slack when they are making the cost saving. people are burning out and making mistakes that impact clients. it has to to stop. - I think pay is generally reasonable, there's a lot of moaning internally but I think most roles get paid about what is right in the marketing. but the bonus and pay rises are not enticing, especially for roles where a key requirement is selling and there is no commission and only a measly annual bonus to strive for. where is the incentive? - bully behaviour goes unchecked. senior management take credit for a job well done and throw mid management under the bus when it goes wrong. multiple reports of bullying are ignored but senior management and HR and those individuals allowed to run riot in the org. - only invest in client facing roles. if a client is paying for a role, great, if they aren't then either they wont pay for that role or if it exists, there's a target on that persons back. we don't have the support roles required to be successful. this is most felt in the transformation and change management space. - please start recognising that whilst we have a lovely office, people don't want to socialise there. it's our place of work. invest in some team building, some offsite some FUN!!! people don't mind working hard If there's balance and there is zero budget given to leaders to support the fun element. This is partly to blame for the teams being so silo'd and against each other all the time. - when will they accept that global verticals only Make us less collaborative? Removing the UK identify was a huge mistake, we have no sense of belonging any more and for those who do not live on the doorstep of the office, work is more isolating than ever.