Prysm Group Reviews

Very loud music (80dB +) is played all day, every day. Constant foul language is used by senior management in the course of normal conversation. Multiple women I have worked with have complained about specific incidents of sexual harassment in the workplace from several specific members of management. Female staff have been lectured en masse about wearing revealing clothing and personal hygiene. Male members of senior management frequently stripped down to their underwear in the middle of the office before and after lunch, to put on and take off exercise clothing. One former colleague told me that he was given a promotion on the grounds that he lost weight. While possibly well-meaning, this is discriminatory. No kitchen or even drinking water available. Staff are expected to bring water to work and fill their own water bottles from the taps in the quite grubby toilet. I personally tried to have a water cooler installed and was promised constantly, over the course of a year, that it was just around the corner. Intimidation is used freely and encouraged by senior management. More than once I received a public dressing down by managers in charge of adjacent teams, for bringing up issues such as an arbitrary change in my working hours with no notice, and questioning a request for salary information from a manager who was not my direct line manager or HR. I was threatened with consequences for "rocking the boat". There is very little in the way of pay rises. Staff get promoted up through the ranks very quickly, apparently with token pay increases, until they reach junior management, where they're burned out and leave to better-paid work elsewhere. This has the drawback that a single team may have multiple managers in a single year. I witnessed a whole group of marketing staff taken into a group dismissal meeting just before Christmas 2017. As a designer, I expect to work late into the evening to make sure that print deadlines are met. Fortunately, with a little organisation, I didn't need to do it that often. However, staff in the sales side of the floor are expected to put in multiple hours of unpaid work every day to meet canvassing targets.

- No kitchen, just a tiny fridge at the back of the room. - No water dispensers, have to fill your water bottle up from the tap in the toilets, which is pretty gross. - Zero communication between departments - very disorganized. - 'Event Directors' - A generous term for sales managers, swear every other word. This attitude filters down the ranks. - Men openly strip off in the office at lunch time to go to the gym - Lack of respect to fellow colleagues and unprofessional. - Sexist attitudes. If you have half a brain cell you will find the 'Wolf of Wall Street' mantra extremely cringe worthy, yet so many seem to buy in to it. The company is a glorified call centre where sales execs are encouraged to swear and shout at people on the phone to get what they want. Its hard to believe that a company like this still exists.