Not a place you want to work - Anonymous employee PA Media Group Employee Review

As someone who worked at PA for a few years and not one to normally write any type of reviews. I felt in this case it was absolutely necessary to stop anymore people getting sucked into such a negative, demotivated, incompetent and bullying workplace. I have watched the business deteriorate. Executives and product have no idea about the ever changing market they are selling to and still believe that clients buy on the ethos of 150 years ago when PA were founded, where they were probably the only news agency in the UK. We have a number of competitors (and rising) but it’s almost like PA want to pretend they don’t exist. Times have changed and no matter how many times you articulate ideas and customer feedback, it simply goes unheard. It’s a setup for both employee and business failure which is why almost all of the commercial team have left in these months during covid. They employ management who have next to no experience to be managers or any leadership role for that matter. Ultimately it allows people who come into the business to micromanage, bully, manipulate and bring their narcissistic negative attitude, with no knowledge or credibility in sales. And believe me when I say, They do this to everyone and anyone. If you are finding things difficult, instead of getting support, you get pressured more. Even if it’s the first ever time you have felt stress (amid a pandemic, you would think we are human). Times have changed and after such a whirlwind of a year, you might think their mindset would have shifted and improved towards its employees, but in fact its gotten worse because they are losing grip of how to run the company and the direction it is going. They have lost too many good people from around the business (not just sales), which maybe having a detrimental impact. To add to it all, HR are the worst I have come across in the history of all my jobs! Their job is to literally govern workplaces. Scrap everything else. That should be their utmost concern. It’s in the job title ‘HUMAN RESOURCES’, even when a number of people complain about the bullying and manipulation from a manager, you are told that a manager is able to treat you like that, since it is you who reports into them. As a new person, you will get no support because there isn’t anyone who cares enough to do it.