Awful management - Researcher Right Angles Employee Review

The people who work there are mostly nice, but they're too scared to speak up

Literally everything about this company. Paul Blanchard is a terrible person and still owes me money 5 years later. He creates a hostile work environment and caused me months of anxiety and distress. Avoid this place and this man at all costs, being unemployed would be preferable to working here. I was reprimanded for not answering work emails after hours and not having my phone on in the evenings

The money is good - but only if he decides to pay you.

Twice bankrupt Paul Blanchard claims to have offices in New York, Los Angeles and London. These claims are exaggerated. In reality, he has a PO box in LA, a shady accountant in New York (where the company is registered, conveniently stripping you of any rights under UK law) and everyone else (mainly young, inexperienced women) works remotely, at whatever members' club or hotdesking hub he hasn't been turfed out of. He has no employees - all are freelance. Google him and look at his liquidated businesses on Companies House - it's all there. He lowered and reinstated salaries at will to control people, and owes many former workers money. He criticised people's work when no criticism was warranted, and pitted team members against one another to create an atmosphere of mistrust. He regularly made racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic and ableist comments without shame while his complicit minions discouraged anyone from complaining about it. If you take a job here, say hello to working 12+ hours a day, bullying, inappropriate comments, gaslighting, and being constantly available on Slack – and goodbye to lunch breaks, a reliable income, job satisfaction and any kind of life outside of work. He will make grand promises and not deliver - this applies to clients too, only when they start to complain he will blame you. Good luck taking him to court for your unpaid invoices, as he has about as much respect for the courts as he does for people's boundaries. In short: Right Angles is a highly toxic workplace and you should do everything you can not to end up here.