Don't. - Anonymous Employee Charters Estate Agents Employee Review

The Salary is quite generous, but comes at the price of having to work like a dog.

very little job autonomy! this company only cares about there employees hitting targets, which creates a pretty miserable work place. The best way to describe working here is like being at school and getting told off for talking. Micromanagement is on another level at this company, they will control every little task you do. there is no real freedom to go out of the lines or suggest any new ideas of doing anything. Staff Retention is also very poor! Within the time I was there my team had 8 employees that had started and left, and I was only working at the company for a year and a half.

The management team are very knowledgable and have created an extremely successful business, this means there is potential to earn well…but only if they like you

Management here is simply not approachable. They dismiss feedback outright and refuse to consider that anyone else might have a better or more efficient way of doing things. What matters most is agreeing with them, not doing good work. As a result, there’s an obvious clique of “yes people,” and if you’re not part of it, your efforts won’t be valued. Turnover is extremely high, and instead of treating it as a serious problem, senior management seems to find it amusing. That attitude alone says a lot about how little they care about their staff. The working hours are outdated and exhausting. Official hours are 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., but you’ll be expected to start early, stay late, and skip lunch. Meanwhile, most competitors dropped these kinds of hours years ago. Micromanagement is out of control. Every task is monitored, every decision questioned, and even branch managers are stripped of any real authority. Their job is basically to enforce whatever upper management dictates. The company is large, but that doesn’t mean you’ll feel part of a team — most people won’t even know who you are. In short, the culture is rigid, cliquey, and dismissive. Hard work goes unnoticed, morale is low, and the environment makes it very difficult to feel respected or supported as an employee.