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Mack Brooks Exhibitions

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Dead conservative and stifling - Event Coordinator Mack Brooks Exhibitions Employee Review

2.0
5 Aug 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Decent salaries for outside London, low workload (th cushiest company in the events industry I have experienced in 15 years in the field). Great for working mums.

Cons

Having worked in events for a long time before, I was shocked at the level of inflexibility and conservativeness of staff at any level. The workload given to individual employees varies widely - few work overtime constantly, while others are left to twiddle their thumbs all day. All these comments mention the "Germanic" work culture and how Germans are favoured, but I can tell you the company has nothing in common with how business in done in Germany. Micro-micro-micro managing managers are stifling and innovation and new ideas are looked down upon. If you like the motto "That's how we have always done it", this is the company for you. Promotions seem to be based solely on who managed to sit around the longest, not actual education, skills or achievements. Non-married women without kids virtually have not chance at advances, they want to see you tied done in some other way first before you get promoted.

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Mack Brooks Exhibitions Response
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Thank you for taking time to leave your review. We value constructive feedback. Your review raises some concerns which are disappointing to read and I would like the opportunity to discuss these elements further and would urge you to contact me at monika.romaslowska@mackbrooks.co.uk. We accept that more can always be done in respect of the employee experience and we welcome specific, constructive feedback in order to be able to improve.

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