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IRIS Software Group

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IRIS Software Group reviews

3.7

66% would recommend to a friend

(863 total reviews)
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Jason Dies

75% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

IRIS Software Group has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 863 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The IRIS Software Group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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863 reviews
5.0
Aug 10, 2022

Great place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

- Fast paced business with opportunities for career progression - Company is growing - Flexible working - can work from home or from an office - Good benefits such as private healthcare - Good communication from the leadership team

Cons

- Sometimes you get lost in the procedures and processes that are required when working for a large business

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IRIS Software Group Response
3y
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. We are delighted that you enjoy the fast pace at IRIS, our flexible working options, and recognise our fantastic career progression and development opportunities. We are proud of the strong communication between our leadership team and the rest of the company, utilising our employee engagement tool, Peakon, to enable employees to share their anonymous feedback in real time with managers and senior leaders to make a #IMPACT, as well as a range of company-wide communications to share our plans and exciting news. We appreciate IRIS is a large, successful, and fast-growing company and we have put in place resources and tools to help our employees navigate our processes. We are delighted to have invested heavily in our Quantum project, which supports standardising our systems and processes into a set of world class, integrated systems to enable our colleagues to work efficiently throughout the organisation. We also have a range of intranet pages that detail our HR initiatives and processes, as well as running a weekly induction for all new hires, to welcome them to the company and detail our systems, processes, and employee directory (Delve). We’re always looking for ways we can be the best we can be, and we would welcome any further suggestions. Please speak to your HR representative or leave a comment in our next Peakon survey. Kind regards, the HR team
4.0
Aug 10, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A company that encourages autonomy and provides staff with the opportunity to grow and develop your career. Very people focused with an approachable management team from the board down.

Cons

Coming from a smaller organization there is definitely a culture shift in what is managed and how often its managed. This of course provide fantastic insight and is done for the right reasons - but at times I often look for ways I can reduce/consolidate the meetings I am involved with.

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IRIS Software Group Response
3y
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. We are delighted that you recognise our passion for encouraging our employees to be innovative, creating exciting opportunities, and promoting our IMPACT values, one of which is #MakingItHappen. We appreciate IRIS is a large and fast-paced organisation and we work hard to ensure that everyone feels part of the family and has a clear understanding of our goals and plans for the future. We are proud to communicate our strategies and priorities to our employees across the globe through our monthly company update, presented by our Executive team, through weekly emails sent out by our CEO, Elona, and newsletters that celebrate our achievements and signpost our upcoming processes and events. We are also delighted to have formally launched our Meet Free Friday initiative, which encourages all our employees to avoid scheduling recurring meetings on a Friday so that we can promote long-term value adding projects, focus on team development, and plan for the upcoming week. We’re always looking for ways we can be the best we can be, and we would welcome any further suggestions. Please speak to your HR representative or leave a comment in our next Peakon survey. Kind regards, the HR team
2.0
May 6, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Varied work. Opportunity to learn new things. Some innovative software solutions. Ambitious growth plans. Hardworking employees who help each other. Flexibility to work remotely (it saves office costs for IRIS too)!

Cons

Lack of streamlined processes- Legacy processes of a small-size company that are no longer fit for purpose for this mid-size corporate, continuous stream of new acquisitions with no time to assimilate them and ever-evolving rules cause daily work stress. Shambolic systems- This software company has no comprehensive ERP/ financial system or a common database. We work with Excel sheets and spend half the time searching for data on individual laptops or copying and pasting data into Excel files! Add to this mix, different financial systems of the acquired companies and you can imagine the wonderful chaos! To solve this, we have an army of finance people. But everyone in Finance is overworked due to system and process challenges and ever-changing landscape. Excessive workload and unrealistic demands of management. Attrition is very high. There is no time to train new comers and they are put into the fire from day one. No appreciation of these issues by senior management, who are keen to just save costs, maximise profit and increase the valuation of the company for a possible sale (?) You get a feeling of being used, especially in the Finance department at IRIS, like a slave in a galley ship!

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IRIS Software Group Response
3y
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review, although we are surprised and disappointed by your comments. We are very proud to have heavily invested in our world-class Quantum project to streamline our systems and processes. Quantum replaces isolated processes across our business with a fully integrated set of systems that can provide a better customer experience, maximise cross-sell opportunities, and a dedicated Finance system to support financial reporting and activities across the business. To help ease our staff’s workload we’ve welcomed new employees, brought in additional resources, and hired senior management to direct and lead change in this area. Our strategies are continually shaped by our employees’ views and expertise. We encourage all our employees to share their feedback in our monthly employee surveys (Peakon), various dedicated inboxes, and our annual Great Place to Work survey. We also are proud to have 35 Employee Voice Ambassadors (EVAs) across several departments, including 5 representatives in Finance and Legal. These ambassadors are a great way for your team’s collective voices to be channelled to senior leaders and our Executive Team who can collate feedback and implement positive change and further improve engagement. Our EVAs are given dedicated training on how to interpret and action Peakon feedback, facilitate meetings and lead with empathy. We are also delighted to reward and support our employees, from our weekly Thank You Thursdays to encourage teams to recognise each other, our CEO shout outs to our #IRISHeros each week, our IMPACT Awards, Top Talent Awards and generous benefits package, we aim to show everyone how much they mean to us. We care deeply about our employees' wellbeing and mental health and are extremely proud to have been recognised as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces™ for Wellbeing. We have a range of wellbeing resources and support networks, such as our incredible Mental Health First Aiders, our Belonging Champions, daily wellbeing nudges, our weekly workplace support group, company-funded access to talking therapies, wellbeing apps, an Employee Assistance Program, and Mindfulness training. We also have a dedicated Wellbeing intranet page where employees can access all of these resources and find specific and tailored support. We’re always looking for ways we can be the best we can be, and we would welcome any further suggestions. Please speak to your HR representative or leave a comment in our next Peakon survey. Kind regards, the HR team.
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