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Inspired Thinking Group

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Don't bother. - Anonymous employee Inspired Thinking Group Employee Review

1.0
27 Aug 2025
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Flexible working and the ability to work remotely. Good place to get some short-term experience as a junior in marketing/creative or tech.

Cons

Salaries are very low (some only slightly above minimum wage), especially for graduates, while workloads are high. No real career progression — management does little to support development. Taking annual leave often led to managers digging into your work, and you’d return to unnecessary performance meetings despite hitting all targets and timelines. Juniors are overworked while management contributes little of value. Recent layoffs are blamed on “globalization” and “offshoring,” but in reality it’s all about cutting costs by replacing talented staff with cheaper overseas labor. The company preaches “transparency” and a “culture of kindness,” but the reality is a culture of fear. Senior management doesn’t welcome challenge or feedback, and staff are afraid to speak up in case they’re next on the redundancy list. High-paid executives benefit while frontline employees are treated as disposable.

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Inspired Thinking Group Response
3mo
Hi there, apologies for the late reply.. I am sorry to read that you had a disappointing experience during your time with us. 2025 saw some difficult trading times and in turn difficult decisions. I appreciate your journey with us wasn't as you would have liked but we do very much value our employees and our People and Wellbeing teams work hard to support all our global teams and always encourage and welcome employees to come forward and have a safe place to voice any concerns. We hope you are well and happy in your current place of work.

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I was a victim of the sixth or seventh round of of layoffs within under two years—and there's been another round this month—due to "offshoring" jobs ("rightsizing", "competing in a global marketplace", "globalization", "nearshoring", blah, blah, blah). ITG f/k/a PureRed cares FAR more about money than people. They're axing very talented, hard-working, and driven people only to replace them with cheaper labor in South America and South Asia (while claiming "it's not about cheaper labor"). The company's goal is absolutely to replace all subexecutives with "offshored" labor. ITG claims to be different and better with claims of "transparency" and a "culture of kindness", but they're just like all the other corporate machines with cronyism, high-paid executives (some of whom who get golden parachutes after mergers and buyouts), very low-paid worker bees, and a bunch of lip service. I've never been more disappointed in a company. Just be evil and own it. Stop lying to everyone. And PLEASE stop the crocodile tears, leadership. Have some self-awareness. You've axed people who make very little money in one of the worst job markets in years. Spare us the theatrics.

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Inspired Thinking Group Response
3mo
Hi There, thank you for your feedback, its disappointing to hear that your experience with ITG / PureRed wasn't the best - 2025 saw some difficult trading conditions as well as economic and political challanges, and led to some difficult decisions being made - That said we do acknowledge the impact this had on some of our teams - Our Wellbeing and Diversity programs are still as strong as ever and remain an amazing source of support for our global teams. I hope you are prospering now and enjoying your work.
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