Pros
- Good benefits, especially health benefits.
- There are opportunities to develop outside of your role via secondments etc.
- Organisation truly cares about its members and purpose.
- Good work life balance in my team, although this isn’t consistent across the business.
- Bonus scheme.
- New CEO is a good figurehead and seems to care about colleagues opinions.
- Colleagues are committed to YBS and its values.
- Lots of opportunities to support local charities and get involved in fundraising or volunteering.
- Generally, the mid level managers really care about people.
- Office buildings are nice and Yorkshire Drive has a good atmosphere.
- Most people who work here are nice people.
- Supportive environment overall, colleagues will help you when you need it.
Cons
- Limited training and development opportunities if you don’t want to side step or move roles. Makes it difficult to grow in your role.
- Poor reward and recognition, difficult to stay motivated.
- Favouritism.
- Pay not competitive.
- Loyalty not rewarded.
- Slow to implement wider change, but change on a smaller scale (within individual teams) can be rolled out too quickly and is mismanaged.
- Slow on the D&I front. As a neurodiverse colleague I sometimes felt overlooked and undervalued which negatively affected my confidence and motivation.
- Ideas from junior staff are not taken seriously or are ignored. Case in point, I wasn’t offered an exit interview.
- Retail colleagues undervalued.
