Just awful - Anonymous employee Reason Digital Employee Review

Thanks for your review. We’re sorry to hear that you’ve had a negative experience :-(. We take feedback seriously and are always wanting to get better. We wanted to give a bit of an update into our current ways of working so you can see how we’re addressing some of the areas you’ve mentioned. People are the reason we do the work we do. We regularly encourage honest and anonymous feedback from our staff which we use to shape the way we work. Hive surveys go out to staff on a regular basis to gather insight on how our teams are experiencing their role, workload, managers and what improvements they would like to see. We are actually in the process of introducing a new way of communicating to ensure feedback is encouraged and listened to from all angles, and levels of course! We need to make sure that feedback is being used in the best way so we’ve been working on an organisational learning and development plan. We always try to create an environment where people are comfortable speaking out and feel that their input is required and can effect change at Reason. We want our team to push themselves so we always encourage them to use training opportunities that will aid personal development. We provide each team member with a £1000 annual training budget. That said, we know it’s not all about training so we also look at health and wellbeing opportunities for our staff. Weekly yoga sessions, talks around mental health issues and a cycle to work scheme are just a few of the initiatives available. We are a small organisation (around 40 people) and operate as a social enterprise. Although we would love to be able to, this sometimes means that it is unsustainable to match the offers of large corporates in regards to holiday and sick pay. We offer 6 days paid sick leave and a standard holiday allowance of 20 days plus bank holidays. We know there’s room for improvement and we’ve taken feedback onboard and around a year ago, introduced a salary sacrifice scheme allowing staff to purchase 5 days of extra holiday. We also think it’s important to focus on work/life balance for our team by offering flexible working and the ability to work from home. It’s within our company DNA to support those who experience discrimination or prejudice. Supporting those who identify as women is just one part of this. We recently completed our own gender pay gap analysis which shows that women are actually paid slightly more than men within Reason Digital. However we know it doesn’t stop here. We’ve created a Women’s Leadership Group which meets on a monthly basis. It’s open to all and helps to ensure that women are heard on topics such as policies, organisational changes and development issues. Everything is work in progress but we feel we’re taking the right steps. We believe our team to be a group of passionate and talented individuals who are integral in helping us grow and improve every day.