Current Employee - Anonymous employee Walker Hamill Employee Review

Thank you very much for leaving a review. It is very kind of you and very useful for us. I hope that we do listen and we very much want to invest in the long term development of our Researchers and Consultants and maintain what we think is a very team orientated and open culture. We are aware of the need to offer our candidates interview times before and after work, for their convenience, and this does sometime lead to 8.00 am and 6.00 pm interviews, but we would hope no more than perhaps 2 or 3 times a week maximum. Most people arrive c 8.15 and the majority have left by 6.30 these days. Most will disappear earlier once a week and we all disappear earlier on a Friday for 5.00 drinks after work - normally continuing from Friday drinks in the office. We are trying to notice when Researchers are a little quieter and do try and remember to suggest they go home! The office is normally empty bar a few by 6.30 and we think with the candidate interviewing requirement (and generally high business activity levels!) this is fairly industry standard in our market. Recent staff turnover has in the main been caused by people going back into further education including individuals undertaking a PhD and a Masters at Oxford. Others have spent a couple of years with us from University and then decided to travel for a while. Thankfully across the business as a whole we have unusually high retention of staff and are pleased to say that we have a strong alumni network. We will keep trying to improve in reacting to broader changes in working practices.