Jeremy Gardner Associates reviews

- Profit driven company with stress piled on from the top down, even more so since the Jensen Hughes takeover. - Disorganised, stressed management lead to stressed staff at all levels. - Horrible working environment. - Offices are antiquated and dismal. - No Christmas bonus, we were promised a bottle at Christmas but did not even get that. - Staff expected to work 55+ hour week, mostly due to management being unable to say No to a client even when the client request or expectation is unreasonable. The stress was just piled onto the engineers to get the work out on time. - High staff turnover says it all. I know many staff who are stuck there but hate it. - No thanks or appreciation for staff - make more profits is all that is concerned. - Look at the dates of all the "5 star reviews", they are all around the same date. This was an order from management. What a joke! - I felt my career suffered by working in JGA. My biggest career regret so far. - My confidence was knocked badly so I was unsure about my ability to do my job in another company when I was leaving. I am rebuilding myself slowly but it is not easy.

-Like much of the construction industry, fire engineers must work to artificially deflated deadlines in a highly competitive environment. Working hours are 8:45-5:30 but it is rare to finish work before 6:30. 55 hour working weeks are common. I was also asked to read advanced fire engineering books on my commute which increases working hours to 60 per week. -Management in the Irish offices blindly give out work without considering if it can be done on time. Trying to raise honest concerns about capacity for work will earn blank looks from management and hostility for challenging their authority. -There is a strong culture of reaching deadlines regardless of the circumstances; rather than prioritizing important projects the management will insist on meeting every deadline given. I have seen an engineer work an 80 hour week because the client made a mistake and management would not tell the client that their mistake called for a revised deadline. Note that the UK fire regulatory system makes work a lot easier for engineers and as such, working conditions are not as harsh.