The Hakim group does not care for the employees in the businesses they own. Having worked a fair few jobs in my life, this was by far the most shocking lack of care that I have been subjected to from the higher ups in a company.
To Hakim group you are cattle, and an inconvenience to them if dare to be a human being. There is no soul in the fabric of how they run, and 'wellbeing' is just a box to tick for them.
They chose to close the business I was working for having taken it over 2 years prior. During that time, they put almost no effort into changing the business model, and only focused on cutting jobs, running the company on bare bones. With a little nurturing and care on their part, I truly feel it would have been a different story.
However, businesses do fail, and what angered and hurt me the most, was their handling of the closure of the business. They were embarrassingly disorganized, unable (or unbothered) to provide answers to simple questions about the process, leaving us as front facing members of the company pitifully unsupported, and customers without a basic level of care. They did all within their power to avoid redundancy pay for any of the staff, some long standing and dedicated team members. There was blatant disregard for the human beings caught up in the closure process. The fact that we had lives to keep on living, and financial responsibilities to maintain was not a consideration to them. During the last week of trading, we were left to fend for ourselves completely, with the Hakim group staff responsible for our store on a team building week, playing a game of 'The Traitors'. The uncertainty was painful, causing stress and upset among the team.
Everything that's wrong with the corporate and capitalist world are encapsulated by the Hakim group and I would recommend running a mile.
