A complete culture switch - Anonymous employee Planday Employee Review

3.0
Jul 8, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Amazing colleagues overall - Social atmosphere in the two main offices (Copenhagen & London) - Cool new office spaces - Relatively flat hierarchy with quite a lot of room for ideas and propositions - Opportunity to work with inspiring passionate people who really love what they're doing - Opportunity to travel to the various offices quite often - Good work/life balance overall

Cons

- The culture, which was one of Planday's best assets, has recently become quite bad. The new CRO is placing all of his ex co-workers in strategic positions and bringing a toxic "US corporate broey" culture to the company which has a real impact on the atmosphere in the offices. A few long time valued employees have left recently as a result - The company's strategy keeps changing and is quite unclear, leading to misunderstandings, weariness, lack of motivation and trust from the employees - Management is inexistent in some departments, you rarely get the opportunity to learn from someone above you, and if something is wrong you will most likely know it when they fire you - They've let go of loads of competent people in various departments in the past 3 months with very little to no transparency, and most of these people were never given the chance to improve, or even given an honest explanation - The CEO is a nice and quite transparent guy, but he has a tendency to put of all his trust in one or two C-level individuals without questioning the impact of their decisions/behaviors on the employees, which contributes to the recent toxic culture - The product has become better in the past few months, but it's still miles away from the competition

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1.0
Mar 8, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Most colleagues are friendly, some people are amazing, but most of them left to pursue better opportunities. Quite good with social events and coming up with different activities. Lunch is good. Work/life balance is ok.

Cons

In this organization, only the sales team gets praised and rewarded. Mostly, other people are underpaid, not recognized, and barely get salary increases or other benefits. Some employees, with extremely challenging jobs, long working hours, and multiple years of seniority, have insanely low pay. There are absolutely no growth opportunities. No career progression opportunities and no budget to take any courses to get certified. The management says that they are open for change and more effective processes, but when it is time to implement a new process, they start to come up with reasons why it is not a good time to do it and that we should not take away the freedom to let employees do tasks in their own, unstructured way. The workplace advertises a hybrid culture, but the department executive does not believe that any work gets done when working from home. He was always sitting by the door to look at what time people come to work and leave. Only the ones being the first ones in and last ones out are “productive”. Once, I had to defend myself to be allowed to go to the GP in the middle of the day to get antibiotics for a bacterial infection, and got questioned by the said executive whether visiting the GP "is really necessary". I am so blessed that I got out of this place.

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Planday Response
3mo
Hello there, Thank you for sharing your candid feedback — we genuinely appreciate it, even when it's difficult to read. We are really sorry to hear that your experience left you feeling unrecognised and that the day-to-day environment felt restrictive. This is not reflective of the culture we have built at Planday, and it is not the experience we want anyone to have. We do have growth opportunities and a learning budget in place, and we are sorry these did not feel accessible or visible to you during your time with us. We are committed to continuous improvement and would greatly appreciate the opportunity to learn more about your specific experience, so we can investigate and address it directly. Please feel free to reach out to me directly at alyssa.nenstiel@planday.com. Best wishes, Alyssa Nenstiel People Experience Partner at Planday
4.0
Apr 9, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good benefits and nice teammates.

Cons

Shift of focus in the core markets, bets on new unsure markets.

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Planday Response
3mo
Hello Plandayer, Thank you so much for taking the time to share your current experience and for your rating. We genuinely appreciate your recognition of the great benefits and good colleagues - these are important aspects to our culture here at Planday, thank you for highlighting them as pros. We also hear your honest feedback regarding strategy - changes and shifts can feel uncertain. We are committed to communicating about our vision and the reasoning behind any strategy changes at our regular all hands meetings (Town Halls, Quarterly Kick Offs etc), so that everyone feels informed and part of the journey. You are also welcome to ping me directly if you'd like to discuss this further, or if there is more feedback you’d like to share. We look forward to seeing your continued growth here at Planday! Best wishes, Alyssa Nenstiel People Experience Partner at Planday
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