Bury Council Reviews

3.4

62% would recommend to a friend

(45 total reviews)

Mike Connolly

62% approve of CEO

9% positive business outlook

Bury Council has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 45 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Bury Council employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Government and public administration industry (3.6 stars).

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45 reviews
5.0
30 Mar 2026

Friendly place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good work life balance There are some good department to work for Good management

Cons

Lack of progression opportunities Senior management

1.0
6 Jan 2026

They don't care about their employees

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Work colleagues are wonderful

Cons

- They take away flexible working. - They don't hire enough staff to maintain appropriate staffing levels to manage the job and instead expect the current staff to add more to their workload when they are already stretched to the max. - You advise you need help to department leads to get a referral for wellbeing health services and nothing is done about it. - They restructure every fews years and change the job and amount of people needed for the department just enough that they make you re-apply for your job each time and give you uncertainty about being able to keep your job despite having a 'permanent' job. - They don't honour long-standing working arrangements the help you manage your work/life balance in order to be able to keep your job when it comes to restructures. - Training is practically none existant.

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