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Swindon Borough Council

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Could be good but the CEO lets it down. - Surveyor Swindon Borough Council Employee Review

2.0
25 June 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible working hours are available, some managers have an issue with allowing staff to finish early or take the time back off and consider the use of using flexi time to be a weapon they can use to control staff members.

Cons

Poor management, to many people in management roles, simply because they have been there so long, these managers have little or no management training or experience. There can be a real resistance to change if it doesn’t suit a managers way of working, if your managers don’t like working from home then you will meet resistance and if your managers don’t like flexi time then you won’t be able to use it. The CEO of SBC acts like a Head mistress rather than a professional with management experience, her favourite activities include belittling people at staff events, singling people out at staff briefings and shouting at people who don’t address her properly as CEO. The CEO or Suzy Kemp the miscounting leader as she has become known (Google her counting skills) seems surprised that staff don’t feel comfortable sitting anywhere near the front of one of her, I am the CEO look at me events. Despite the country only just coming out of Lockdown she still insisted on organising a staff briefing, the staff who attended found chairs strapped to one another,making distancing impossible due to the number of people there, surprisingly this lead to a break out of COVID.

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2.0
28 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good pension, hybrid working, able to develop skills and opportunities for promotion

Cons

Under staffed, Under funded, too many management who micro manage, not enough feet on the ground

4.0
31 Jan 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The environment is really good, the coworkers are very helpful and the managers really listen and care.

Cons

The rest of SBC is not the same. Not a lot of progression opportunities

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