Scottish Braille Press - Anonymous employee Sight Scotland Employee Review

1.0
27 Jan 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

City centre location with good transport links, opportunity for overtime, casual dress code

Cons

* Isolating work environment. Boring and repetitive work. Very little variation or challenge. * Very limited responsibilities and autonomy - have to ask managers to do basic things as you're not allowed to do them. * Little to no opportunity for building skills. Training is spotty. * Inexperienced managers sometimes give wrong information or behave unprofessionally, and don't know how to lead a team. * Stress from hard hitting upper management trickles down through middle management. * Poor / inconsistent communication. * Restrictive workplace environment dictated by clients. * Feels more like a factory or call centre than a charity that cares about people.

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1.0
20 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

None. Cannot recommend to work here.

Cons

Too many to mention but all from top leadership down. Unless this changes, there's little hope for the Services that work hard to help people with vision loss. Glassdoor still has the previous CEO listed (Mark O'Donnell) but this is Craig Spalding for a number of years now.

1.0
30 Dec 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There wasn't many pro's to working for Sight Scotland after the Exec Team changed.

Cons

The Exec team have absolutely ruined everything that Sight Scotland stood for, they have zero empathy for the service users and they 100% do not care about their staff who work tirelessly to provide a safe, nurturing, person centred service. The atmosphere at HO is toxic. The Exec Team love to pretend they care but they are the most toxic of all.

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