The entire business model seems to rely on hiring graduates and paying them not very much, they stay for a year or two and then leave, and they are replaced by more young graduates. The cycle continues. They require university graduates for their jobs but pay them well below a living wage. My friends who are teachers, police officers, and retail managers earn a lot more. They recently changed their requirement so that people have to come into the office 3 days a week for "office culture", which is you sitting quietly at your desk and having meetings on Teams, and being annoyed that it's so loud in the office and hard to focus. We had to be in the office every day a week because the CEO was visiting, but no one in our section actually saw him because we're not considered valuable, the only ones who matter are sales and accounts, wherever the money is. This is just to justify the rent of their central London office, which they just expanded, for some reason. But they do not pay enough to support living in London or the cost of the commute from outside of the city. It seems only if you are considered adult or valuable enough do you get the flexible working options. The base salary is so low and you only get a decent increase in a promotional year, which is not every year. It would take 4 years of working here to earn £30k. There are people who got their promotions in Q1 of the year and have had to wait 6 months to get their salary raise so the company can check on its profits, all the while posting about how much money they're making on social media. The bonuses and vague and ill-defined, it's unclear how much you get until it gets paid and what the parameters are for it. The company also doesn't allow you to work for yourself outside of hours if you want to supplement your income. They started micromanaging your day and even your yearly quarters. Every day you have to submit a EOD report on everything you did that day, a quarterly questionnaire about the Team you're in, nothing comes of these, it's just pointless American bureaucracy to have managers feels like they're doing something. But if you ask your manager or complain about anything, they say they have no power to change anything as all decisions are made above them.
