Pros
Some of the people you work with end up becoming your true close friends (trauma bond) Good training up to a point Free tea, coffee, biscuits etc (so generous I know)
Cons
Where do I even begin. The year of 2024 saw many sets of redundancies at different times. All with no communication of course. After each batch, the CEO would say no more and then would in fact, get rid of more staff. Then we were taken over by a smaller post house, who right before Christmas, made JUST Evos employees redundant. Then, they threw a huge Christmas party with an open bar. Safe to say that was not their finest move. This company has been in trouble many times and this can only be blamed on the higher management. Many of the them are so hands off they have to rely on line managers to help them gather quotes together. Quotes are always low balled resulting in lots of big clients moving on elsewhere when they discover extra charges. Another reason they leave has to be management being so unwilling to invest in up to date equipment that actually works and an actual fast running data centre for the remote clients and remote Nexis. Being told by clients over the phone and in emails that they despise working at Evolutions was something I dealt with a lot and it was embarrassing! Not only did the equipment have issues, but the buildings are poorly kept. Kitchen is in a state, dirty crumb filled kitchen surfaces and just general poor hygiene lead to cockroach infestations and mice issues. Training stops after a certain point as line managers hate their jobs and cannot be bothered to help anyone else progress. Favouritism when it comes to rigs and training also occur. There is a ‘cool club’ and if you’re not in, you are very much out. Speaking of management, when they aren’t picking on you or down right being toxic, they are gossiping about you behind your back. The person in charge of all of our shifts kept spreading news of redundancies to bookings and other department managers who would then proceed to tell everyone (before the people at risk were even told). HR, in my years we went through several HR staff who would quit very quickly. They could not handle it. They would often have lovely ideas in theory of how to improve the company culture but those ideas would always be shut down by the directors. When I try to think of what the worst part of Evos was.. the fact that not even a HR person could help us seems to be it. Pay was low of course, that seems to be industry wide. But from April 2024 we were told we would get no payrise due to the company not doing well. After many edit support staff doing jobs that were above the pay level, directors officially agreed to payrises. Only to find out months later that HR never signed them off. People had been getting underpaid for months. This did eventually get sorted when it was noticed by an edit support op, but that just tells you all you need to know about lack of communication. Back to redundancies. Many of the latest redundancies were women who were the only ones in their teams, neurodivergent people and people of colour who made up a very small percentage of the company. Lack of diversity was a problem anyway, but to then get rid of those in the minority is a new low that I didn’t think was possible. Bookings… I don’t even have to say anything but if you know, you know.