Overworked and underpaid - Anonymous employee IKEA Employee Review

2.0
Sep 14, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Can sometimes be fun especially before a store opens and everyone works together building the showrooms. You do get an employee discount.

Cons

After the initial hoo ha of a store opening they cut hours to bare bones. People hire on as full time and within 3 months are part time, working 5 hours one day, then 4 hours two days later, it makes no sense. The pay is terrible, absolutely awful and this is an extremely wealthy company.

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Cons

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