Future reviews

3.2

44% would recommend to a friend

(714 total reviews)

Kevin Li Ying

60% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

Future has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 714 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Future employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

Reviews by job title

714 reviews
2.0
Oct 28, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Unlimited Leave, Great manager, and that is it.

Cons

Salary reviews seldom happen. They appear to be more focused on acquiring new companies than looking after the ones they have.

4.0
Oct 27, 2021

Overall positive experience

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Much stringer company now Great experience for junior employees Fun creative and collaborative culture

Cons

Salary and hrs Magazine market tumultuous

2.0
Oct 25, 2021

Bullying culture, terrible middle management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you're a yes person and happy to work yourself into an early grave (or are a workaholic) you'll be fine. But if you're looking for work/life balance, look elsewhere. Unlimited holiday is fine unless your workload and deadlines increase.

Cons

Unfortunately, bullies are rife in middle management (and all the way up it seems too). Here's their current technique: pick you up on the smallest issue as often as they can to make you feel worthless, never offer a pay rise or job progression, if you push for progression they'll ignore everything good you've done for the company and nit-pick on the smallest things and blow them out of proportion to try and wane your confidence. Then they'll make you work a job above your pay grade, often consolidating two or three roles into one and force you to work twice or three times as hard before you're offered a promotion. If promotion comes, it'll be negligible and you'll be so overworked you'll have to go on sick leave with stress/other mental health issue (happened to many of my co-workers over the years). Management like to hire 'yes' people to satisfy their own gains, casting aside anyone with passion and talent in favour of those who work themselves into the ground. When done with them, staff are either made redundant or find work elsewhere because they're broken. For example, at the same time as a company wide introduction of unlimited holiday half of the art editors (and many other staff) were let go, the ones that remained were given a title promotion and a small rise in salary and then made to work on two titles (instead of one) to cover the half they let go.

Viewing 442 - 444 of 714 Reviews

Glassdoor has 789 Future reviews submitted anonymously by Future employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if Future is right for you.