Company doing well, but there are some significant issues - I wouldn't want to work there again! - Anonymous employee Future Employee Review

2.0
28 June 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Unlimited Annual Leave - The people (the majority of people anyway!) - Working across interesting content and big named brands - Company has been transformed since Zillah has become CEO - The company will often surprise you with treats i.e. a day off, cup cakes, etc - The conferences are usually pretty good and informative

Cons

- Due to volume of migrations / company purchases there are a lot of fragmented teams, and work is often duplicated or roles cut and the work dropped on other teams, without the required additional resources (I guess they would call this synergies!). Though I do appreciate this would take a while to work through. - If your face doesn't fit you will not progress in the company. In my opinion, managements favourite's progress regardless of performance. - Aggressive / toxic environment to work in - I've seen people made to cry in meetings on a number of occasions, but nothing is seen to be done about it - Until you move away from Future you don't realise how pressurised and crazily fast paced the environment is. Definitely a recipe for burn out. - In my opinion, I don't feel like the people within the business are valued or cared about. They are simply a means to an end i.e. becoming a billion £ company. - I don't feel like Future lives up to their core values

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Future Response
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Thank you for your review of Future plc and taking the time to tell us about your experiences here. We’re so happy to hear that you loved working with your Future colleagues and that you enjoyed the staff benefits we’ve implemented. The last year has been a transformative time at Future due to our various acquisitions. While we appreciate that this created a feeling of change, our People & Culture team wanted this to be as minimally disruptive as possible. Connection is what makes our teams tick, and this is why we have centralised some teams and brought others closer together. Our aim isn't to replace people or teams but to make our methods of working more collaborative and efficient. Career development is based on experience and merit. To enable continuous professional development, we regularly promote new internal vacancies, lead a yearly schedule of Lunch & Learn workshops and have introduced a new management training scheme to support the development of our managers. We want Future to always be a positive and supportive place to work. If you’ve seen any instances where you believe this isn’t the case, we encourage you to reach out to peopleandculture@futurenet.com so we can look into this.

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