I worked for Leaders in 2016 when they were still independent and my working experience was a lot better then than my later experience when I rejoined in 2019. Since Leaders bought Romans in 2016, Leaders have become very "corporatey" and have slowly taken away staff perks like nights out, water coolers and free christmas dinner). Because their focus is on increasing profitability to make themselves more attractive to investors when they plan to float on the stockmarket in 2023, it has reduced employee satisfaction. Existing staff have to take on the workload when a staff member leaves as they are not replaced (in my experience anyway). This increases stress for the existing staff. It was manic when I was there with dozens of emails left unanswered at the end of the day. Training was poor, coming 3 months into my employment. The workload was huge, way too much for one person and the hours long (8.45am - 5.30pm). You have to pay for your own christmas dinner (the only place Ive ever worked in where the staff have to pay for their own christmas do!), water coolers were removed to reduce costs and there are no more staff nights out (in 2016 we would go out every 3 months, paid for by the company - thats now stopped). The focus is now on reducing costs and this is to the detriment of the staff.
