Croydon Council Reviews

Extreme resistance to change. An absurdly high amount of staff that are either related to eachother or that are a personal acquaintance from before they were employees. Bullying and discrimination is a common place and there is a severe protectionist environment for particular managers and senior managers. Conflicts of interest abound as many employees have a personal interest in what they manage owning assets in Croydon or being relatives or acquaintances of someone that may be impacted by their actions or decisions. Communication is very bad, and everyone resists initiatives aimed at improving communication. Higher management will not communicate with frontline and middle managers hide the problems from higher management. Some teams have severe budgetary constraints, but others have budgetary allowances for anything, from attending functions to having their qualifications paid for by the employer.

Like another reviewer has stated, there are a surprisingly amount of employees who are related to one another and seem to get promoted through the ranks this way. I saw lots of examples of it in my own department when other capable members of staff were overlooked for relatives of senior managers who were not as experienced. There is a culture of covering up bullying and discrimination. Fake people galore who pretend to be kind then stab you in the back. HR are kind of awful and work from a generic textbook. Not many chances to progress - very much a ‘if your face fits’ culture or more one of nepotism.