Living Spaces reviews

3.6

65% would recommend to a friend

(915 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 915 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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915 reviews
2.0
Jun 26, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Ability to work independently during the work day. Sometimes free lunches on the weekend are nice, but depends on where the food is coming from - not all lunches are equal. Great Team Experience Committee adds some bright spots in the day. Most employees are super-nice.

Cons

Work schedules vary too much. One week you work 15 hours, next week 32. Days off vary, making it very hard to schedule anything outside of work. I like my managers, but the higher-ups set very unrealistic sales goals. Not commission, but feels like commission. They say you will not be fired for metrics, but that is a lie. HUGE turnover, and we have only been open for 7 months. Quality of product is not consistent - some good, some not so good. Carefree - Carefree - Carefree....ugh...enough, already! Not every customer has the ability to lay out an additional $300 for furniture protection. Get over it and move on. Just another reason to fire someone. We were promised one work experience, but received something totally different. Walkie in your ear all day: There are X amount of cars in the parking lot. X amount of buying groups in the store. Is your engagement hot or cold? Are you going pen to paper? Did you offer Carefree? Are they buying today? Did you send them to Revive? And on and on and on and on.

2.0
May 29, 2017

Honest Review

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- pay for sales staff is slightly above industry standard, at least for PT. - provided lunch on the weekends. It may not be great, but it's free. - most of the people you work with will be great - if you have never truly sold anything before, you can get a job here. You are truly hired based on your personality and willingness to try. (It won't keep your job, but it will get you hired) - TEC team does it's best to make the associates feel appreciated. Game nights, movie nights, etc. - if you can sell, you can advance here. If you focus on just being GEM you can make promote multiple times in a relatively short time.

Cons

- Executive Leadership sends completely innapropriate messages to the field regarding performance. Including messages that reference politics. Completely unprofessional. - Leadership also likes to change direction suddenly and with no support or reasoning. - They hired managers from traditional sales retail background and talked about the need for them to help evolve the business. The truth is they just want them to do the same things they already do. - Bonus is often unrealistic. On average only 4-6 stores out of 18 a month hit bonus. Don't plan on it. - Bonus for sales staff is unfortunate. You push your team harder than commissioned associates, if you bonus, it won't be much in comparison to any other sales environments. If you can sell, go make commission, they won't pay you fairly here for the sales pressure they will give you. - you are forced to push your people beyond their currentskill sets. If you try to take time to teach, support and grow them it is frowned upon. They are tracked by sale per hour so no time to teach. - Particular Leadership demeans staff over walkie talkie to the entire team and it is an often occurence. - walkie in your ear all day long. - if you are going to be a sales manager, be prepared to be on the door 4-8hrs of your shift. No leading, just giving a Brand Message and greeting - Sales Staff is given points for call in's, point system is out of date and allows for excessive call in's from staff. Most staff calls in often because of the hours. - Sales Staff will get anywhere from 12-50hrs a week. It's based on performance and availability. - You WILL work every weekend including holidays. Holiday weekends (including memorial day, labor day, 4th of July etc) associates are scheduled 10-12hr shifts.

3.0
May 16, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great feedback, builds Customer Service and sales skills Lunch on Weekends Great treatment and favoritism if youre a top seller Decent environment (changes each store) Better starting pay rate

Cons

Commission stress without the Commission pay Favoritism Sales drama like Commission Environment High turn over Bait and Switch hiring, over promising and under delivering Not a lot of room for growth into corperate Dangling bonus buy monthly team performance (only some storea bonus each month) If managers dont like you the treat you so poor that you either quit, pin you with documentation of having a bad attitude, or pull you off the floor and talk down about yiur performance to force you into a corner and quit (seen this first hand) Small yearly increases to salary even for high performers

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