Living Spaces reviews

3.6

65% would recommend to a friend

(913 total reviews)
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Grover Geiselman

75% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Living Spaces has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 913 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Living Spaces employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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913 reviews
1.0
Oct 16, 2016

Product specialist

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Paid weekly, made a couple good friends, lunch on weekends and holidays, easy to get hired, they will hire anybody with a beating heart.

Cons

Very hostile uncomfortable work environment. Company sells themselves to you by talking up how great free lunch on the weekends is, and how important their employees are, like a family...and how they love to promote within. Free lunch? How bout overtime on federal holidays like majority of retailers pay instead? Bet they wouldn't schedule those 10-12 hour shifts on those days anymore. Family? Only if you make them lots of money. Promotions? Ha. I've seen more people denied positions than get them. They don't take the time to know their people and their behaviors as far as managing people. Bottom line is how much you sell. Period. Doesn't matter if you know operations or are and amazing team building manager. If you are a rock star sales person you'll move up. The worst turnover rate I have ever seen in 20 years of work experience. NEVER get weekends off, when management regularly rotates their weekends off. And will lose your job if you can't be available every weekend. Very hypocritical management/leads. They are up *there, the rest of us are down *here. Constantly get talked down to on the Mike for the entire store to hear. Staff are really treated like children. No proper training. Thrown on floor to either make it or break it with little support. Management staff going out with and sleeping with employees under them. Lots of friends and family get hired which really creates clicks within store and those are the people who end up with promotions. I could go on for days. Too many negative aspects to this environment. Not healthy.

2.0
Jun 12, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Weekend meals are free. A lot of coworkers and some of the managers are awesome team players.

Cons

They think of numbers instead of helping guests. If someone is not buying today, leave them and move on to someone who is. There is no commission but I got 3x more pressure for numbers and sales than in my previous commission job. You have seven managers to answer to. Weekly reviews of your progress with numbers (ADS, UPT, TPH, SPH, etc) but are not to receive a copy of it! Employees can be as cutthroat as a commission job with taking your guests' sell as their own. But there are those coworkers who have a heart of gold and can be trusted to help your guests when you are not there and do not keep the sale for themselves. Walk 24/7 with 10 hour days on Saturday/Sunday while carrying 5 pounds of tablet and veriphone for credit cards. The weight of the tablet and veriphone cause shoulder and arm muscle pains that many suffer from but rules are rules. This is our uniform and we are required to carry them at all times. Exhausting and you end up spending your days off recharging your energy instead of fun family life. If you are a church goer, forget it if you work here. As they say, "Retail and Religion do not go together." The store manager is caring and tells true motivational stories.

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2.0
Nov 11, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

They serve you lunch on the weekends. Flexible hours

Cons

People Wake UP !! I come from a commissioned background . I knew what I was getting into when I signed up , straight hourly , but it became clearer as it went along . I only wanted part time , but , you were made to feel as though you were a commissioned salesperson . Some would write on various days that $10,000 , 20,000 , $37,000 and yet they would still only make $12 to 16 dollars per hour . Someone was getting rich , but it wasnt the salesperson doing the work . Most had non professional backgrounds and they were not making enough to afford their own apartments . They were sleeping on their counsins sofa , living with their parents , or boyfriends .. because they didn't make enough to survive. Commission at 5 percent would have been at least $500.00 for the day on a $10,000.00 order . WAKE UP !! There was a salesperson who physically assaulted another on the floor , later on it was found out there was a threat with a gun . Everyone that is reviewed is reviewed negatively , keeps the workers in line .

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