Corporate greed at its utter peak.
Pros
Some of the people are some of the kindest and nicest I've ever had the pleasure of working is. The pros stop right there I'm afraid.
Cons
Where to even begin? Despite being established for, drawing close to, twenty years - Future Health still runs like a start up. These words are not mine, these are the words an evaluator hired by the company chose to describe the business after her assessment. This should be enough in and of itself. Yet it is not. The owners of the company are men more interested in their own profits than the science and credibility of the work they are doing. More interested in accepting new contracts that they can't fulfill than investing in the staff they go through in droves. These staff members are over worked, under paid, under appreciated and all but stepped on in every regard. The direct line managers, both past and present, do try to show their appreciation and gratitude. It is, however, the managers above them that show a lack of empathy and understanding you'd expect from a human being. A scientific officer, during my time in the company, earned £18,000 per annum. I dread to think what the laboratory technicians and the "junior" administrative staff make. In this, scientific officers are expected to work in clean rooms for hours on end without toilet breaks or food until all the samples are processed, of which there are many. The equipment is old and falling to pieces to the point of machines breaking causes staff to remain within the building working long past their finishing time. Some members of staff were expected to work all through the night for validation work and were not even given a bonus for doing so. So, not only illegal, but extremely unethical. To avoid tax they are not based in the UK, because of course they'd not pay tax. They even built a lab I'm Switzerland to try to pay less taxes in Greece and ended up shutting that because the Swiss staff were paid too much for the tax avoidance to be worth it. I could go on, but Future Health took some of the people I care about for granted so long I chose to leave for my sanity and theirs. I only hope they leave soon and leave the ghouls in charge in the world's worst swimming pool, without a paddle.