Toxic management leads to high turnover and layoffs - Anonymous employee Yourgene Health Employee Review

Brilliant colleagues, truly wonder to work with

Bullying, passive-aggressive, threatening and hostile behaviour from HR, particularly during redundancy, is ironic and rather stereotypical. product development isn’t being reviewed. A normal management team would constantly reassess market needs and adjust their strategy if forecasts weren’t looking good. They just winged it then realised no one was buying the product. So of course next logical step would be laying off the entire R&D including Primer Design. Good luck for those bought the stock , this company ain’t going to have new products anytime soon, let alone if it is still survive.

Lovely People to work with ( Excluding upper management)

Had you asked me a few months ago I would have probably given 3/5. Lovely company to work for, great people etc. Warning signs first showed when the lab techs had to beg for multiple months to be paid more than minimum wage, management finally acquiesced and kindly gave them £300 above minimum wage. For the past 3 years we have repeatedly been told there is cash spare to keep the company going for at least 2 years. Imagine our surprise when we got told on a Friday night about a surprise meeting on Monday that affects the whole company! We got told all of the R&D department is being made redundant ( around 70 people) all my colleagues received this. During this CEO Lynn Rees mentioned a few projects by name as the reason for such a huge loss, making individual teams feel at fault. When they've just been following orders from management to make these products that the market has no interest in, yet we somehow are the ones that get made redundant. There always felt such a disconnect between my managers and "upper " management, got the impression multiple times they didn't know what they were doing in terms of project development The process has been absolutely baffling, management giving us no information, they said in writing they had £1 Million spare for just redundancy payments ( See Yourgenes July Investor calls where Lynn Rees confirms this) . Now all of a sudden there's only 500k to go around and the majority of staff ( hired in the last year and a half on a mass hiring) have all been told they're getting made redundant, this is many a person's first job and they've been left high and dry with a GENEROUS 2 weeks redundancy package....... Obviously don’t care about staff, as soon as this news broke there’s been no staff benefits, we used to have a free breakfast club every two weeks and a employee of the month, not anymore!The mask has clearly dropped Upper management is seen laughing and joking around the office, we've been told to think about the CEO's feelings and how tough he's got it having to make us redundant. With his private lake, Porsche he drives to work to shaft us and his huge pay check + free company shares Pour one out for the PCR team who were told to work overtime to finish the Insight DPYD project before a certain date, I witnessed firsthand the stress this placed on multiple of the team .Turns out this was so they could be finished with the project before they were all made redundant, cartoonishly evil. HR manager Wendy C with her 50 years experience in HR, frequently giving us wrong information about the redundancy process, sending clearly AI generated emails, initial communications about who was at risk had the wrong names in, peoples names twice etc. Management clearly wanted the redundancy process to look like it had the input of staff and elected representatives, yet made no concessions and frequently belittled and talked down to the reps. We were told over a month ago about the redundancy, nothing has happened, the process couldn’t be more awkward if they did it on purpose. Still no idea who's even being made redundant. Most of the R&D team currently have nothing to do as we aren't allowed to take garden leave or even WFH during this time, at least I can catch up with my reading! Although I feel immensely for teams that still are forced to do work