HR are the worst, avoid this company - Analyst PCI Pharma Services Employee Review

This company is a complete joke. They expect absolute dedication, constant high performance, and full availability, yet give nothing meaningful in return. The pay is low, the workload is ridiculous, and they’ve stripped away any remaining benefits or flexibility we used to have. Work-from-home? Gone. Flexi-time? Gone. Need time off for a doctor’s appointment, school run, car MOT, or even pregnancy sickness? Tough luck, use your annual leave. There is ZERO compassion, ZERO understanding, and ZERO effort to support staff with real lives outside of work. You’re expected to drop everything for this place, but when you need help, they’re nowhere to be found. The worst part? They don’t even pretend to care anymore. Concerns have been raised again and again, but HR and management don’t listen. Employees are leaving, people are burning out, morale is at rock bottom, and still nothing changes. Instead, they waste time on fake PR, like volunteering days planting flowers, to make themselves look good online. If a regular employee asked to do that? They’d be told no. Always no. And now, to top it off, they’ve taken away four days of our annual leave to cover a forced Christmas shutdown. Not everyone wants that time off. Some people have other commitments, others find the holidays isolating, but none of that matters. You don’t get a choice. You’re just told what to do, when to do it, and how to feel about it. We’re not asking for much, just to be treated like human beings. We have lives. Families. Responsibilities. Mental health struggles. But instead of supporting us, this company continues to take more and more, until there's nothing left to give. No flexibility. No appreciation. No respect. Just top-down control and hollow “celebrations” no one asked for, like a hog roast, while our bonus stays stuck at a measly £400. This hog roast, yeah people can come and have free food, but if they take more than their lunch time "celebrating" with everyone, we then have to work the extra time to make up for it. We don't get the afternoon off to have fun like HR will, who will pretend to over see the whole thing. Who is going to do the work? We would rather not have a stupid hog roast and leave on time, and go home to my family! Or the doctors! Seeing as I cant do it in work time. This place is miles behind the rest of the world. You’re not just overworked, you’re micromanaged, underpaid, and completely disregarded. If you value your sanity, avoid this company at all costs.