A company like no other - Area Manager Kindred Nurseries Employee Review

Lots going on for staff, awards events, staff recognition budgets, opportunities for progression

I cannot think of any

Those infrequent quality interactions with children.

Since Kindred acquired our nursery things have seriously gone downhill. The quality of staff being employed raises serious questions over management's process of acquiring staff & highlights their desperation to fill vacancies. It's more about numbers than who's actually being employed. When poor quality staff are employed, those who interviewed them are blamed for their poor practice. Staff are incredibly over-worked with increasing workloads when current workloads are already unattainable. Management attitudes towards staff is often very poor and border onto bullying, with select staff regularly targeted. Staff are often treated as punching bags and are drawn into management's culture of gossiping and badmouthing. There is little respect across the whole setting and staff morale is incredibly low. Staff feel undervalued as a result of the working environment and low appreciation from management. Staff dread management coming into their room as it is almost always to deliver a negative or to gossip. Management have lost touch with what it's like to work in the rooms and show a deeply poor understanding of current working environments and stresses.