Wonderful company to work for - Model Agent Body London Model Agency Employee Review

Good basic salary for a sales role

Very toxic workplace and zero culture. Encouraged to not interact with other colleagues and focus purely on work from 9-6, with a legal minimum lunch of 45 min - this you’re expected to give up to work more. Management are unprofessional and contradictory, someone will tell you one thing is okay/the right approach, another will tell you you’re wrong or take you into a meeting room for a telling off. Training is next to none, expect you to know the job from a couple of PowerPoints, no shadowing or training sessions at all. Advertised as an uncapped commission role, however, you need to make the business £10k per month before you earn any commission, which can be difficult when most of the best paying clients are already assigned to another booker. The company make out they’re a top London agency, but it’s all a facade and they aren’t respected in the industry. No freedom or using you initiative, everything has to be “checked” by management, which basically means completely start from the beginning and let them do it - emails, light boxes. 5 days in the office, even though could easily be hybrid- expected to come in even if there’s train strikes and live outside of London. Complete lack of communication throughout business , very scatty and very little respect for employees and models there. If you’re looking for a fun, dynamic role into the fashion world, this isn’t it!

Bookers are nice and some of the more younger managers

You’ll get worked to the bone in chase of your commission targets which are unrealistic. When you don’t hit your targets, you get moaned at. As a newbie, you’ll inherit random clients (most likely small clients you’ve never heard of) and then expected to bank big numbers, when most of these clients have small budgets like £200 a day. All the big, well known brands who pay big rates are already taken by the senior bookers so you’re left with the scraps. The owner still expects you to bank the same as the senior bookers, as everyone has the same targets. It’s always the bookers fault, never the fact the clients you get are pure rubbish and don’t reply. So you’ll remain on your basically salary, they’ll often dangle the carrot by drip feeding you a client, only for that client to be unresponsive hence why they’ve passed it over. Which I found the most appalling thing at Body London: - No sick pay, which got taken away without our knowledge. Didn’t even have the guts to tell everyone face to face, you’d just notice on pay day - If you need to book a doctors appointment they make you book it out as annual leave, after they already give you the bare minimum days, disgusting. The agency is not respected by other agencies, clients or models within London - it’s mainly down to the annoying approach, which is enforced by the owner, to email/call clients 10 times a day, who the hell wants to be contacted that many times! So irritable, let your clients breathe. You end up hindering your relationships and it’s embarrassing when the clients tell you to stop, all for you to do the same in the next day. The agency is built to make the people at the top the money. They take a higher percentage from the models for jobs and treat employees like they’re just a clog in the machine, to make them money (taking away sick pay is a fine example)