college - auditing expert amfori Employee Review

Colleagues of the teams are very nice, down to earth, and talented. I have a great time with them and could learn a lot from working together. The Brussels office is located on Avenue Tervuren and it's a very nice area with great infrastructure. For an NGO you receive quite good money

- I can't speak for all managers, but some are extremely toxic and downright abusive. Talking with other colleagues, i know a manager made a lady cry after downright abusive statements. Higher management does not seem to care, and only seem interested in themselves and their own positions, while not helping out the team. - In some teams, Management does not care about you growing as a person and or/ into different roles. You are hired to do your job and nothing else. Motivation to improve the organization and processes is stunted / hijacked by the managers for their own self-interest. When i suggested a possible learning trajectory and improvements, It was not only dismissed, but i was labeled as "not respecting the hierarchy" - Some of the tools and processes used are quite outdated, but not more than with any other organization

Colleagues are very nice and motivated. The office has a lot of natural light and a wonderful view on the greenery. Cafeteria in the building (even if expensive) and possibility to exercise in the building during lunch time (es. pilates). Parking available with EV chargers. Very good work-life balance, teleworking possible, good salaries for being a committed organisation.

General incompetency and laziness of the management. The large flow of money coming from membership fees is squandered and there is no responsible financial management. I think there is not much clarity within the management and I saw terrible employee treatment. Despite being a small organisation (more or less 80 employees), they managed to fire 5 employees in 6 months. In every one of those cases no notice time was given and the reason underlying the decision was never communicated (or a clearly invented one was given). Even without counting those terminations, there is a high turnover of employees, which is symptom of something going clearly wrong. Total abuse of interim contracts and absence of transparency about the process leading to a contract. I know of someone who had been working as an interim for several months who was given the fake promise of an undetermined contract and was laid off on the spot without a single warning because they didn't have enough experience. This is unfortunately not an isolated case. Furthermore, interims have to pass a test with a so-called psychologist to get a contract. It has happened that based on a personality test the "psychologist" determined that a certain employee didn't have the personality of the role they were holding and the worst of this is that HR took this seriously and fired the person. Finally, no notice is ever given to the rest of the organisation about the fact that a certain employee doesn't work there anymore (a part from very senior employees): After someone gets fired, colleagues wonder for quite some time where that person ended up until finding out through gossip that they had been let go. No career progression.