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Politics and inflexibility - Anonymous employee British Council Employee Review

3.0
16 Dec 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

diverse team, occasional training opportunities, work that makes a bit of difference if involved in local delivery of projects

Cons

internal processes are overly elaborate, painstaking and laborious for staff to follow, moreover, expectations on their delivery keep changing depending on who happens to own a particular agenda at HQ; the organisation preaches diversity but in reality there is a major divide between the British management and in country delivery teams; terms and conditions are better for UK staff than for overseas staff

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

Free to work whenever you want

Cons

Working for more than 8 hours sometimes

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