If there was an award for being a bad employer, GlobalData would get it every year.
The company not only does not care about it's employees, it treats them in ways that feel actively malicious.
During my numerous years at the company I was subjected to harassment from management, corporate gaslighting and systematic overworking that saw me slowly absorb the work of 5+ roles. HR even flagged that I was overworked and the company responded by giving me more responsibilities.
Everything is critically under-resourced, and senior management regularly chastise their staff for failing to reach impossible standards while refusing to replace departed staff or even pay for basic, low-cost tools and equipment that would make workloads more manageable.
The communication at the company is also systematically dreadful. Finding information out about developments that impact your job - or even in some cases actual expectations of your role - requires an informal network of fact finding from colleagues and contacts because the official information channels are so weak and poorly structured.
Pay, meanwhile, is some of the worst in the industry, and gets worse the longer you stay because the company does not offer yearly salary increases. Instead, getting a payrise generally requires a job offer from another company - which if you are very lucky the company might begrudgingly match - or a multi-year campaign. And then you will have to wait months to actually get it because of the under-resourced HR department and the fact that every single expense or salary change - no matter how tiny - has to be signed off by the CEO himself.
At the moment editorial is going through changes, as the company puts more pressure on it to use its own data in editorial pieces. Which would be fine, except that the quality of the data is extremely poor and is often factually inaccurate (probably because the poor teams that put it together are also underpaid, overworked and poorly managed).
This is a company built and running on hot air. I've been forced to read - and cover - many of the reports it produces. I wouldn't pay £20 for them, let alone the thousands they are sold to private customers for.
