Its clear from other reviews that the cons of working for this business are common and felt by a heavy proportion of former and current staff. The cons far outweigh the pro's and make it a difficult place to work and progress a career for some.
- The average wage is far below the industry standard and also what is expected of people. Pay rises are very hard to get, even after completing pointless skillset documents.
- Long working hours are inevitable because they refuse to resource with additional staff to manage the project load.
- Work is taken on at an alarming rate to fill gaps in cash flow at the expensive of staffs health and happiness.
- They have an appalling reputation in the industry for paying low rates for freelances and and then not paying them at all. They cannot hide from the fact that everyone in the industry knows they don't pay and therefore this usually affects the quality of freelancers that agree to work for them.
- The accounts department are under-qualified and have no procedure for dealing with late payments and communicating with freelancers, so they usually ignore their calls and emails. As many have stated, freelancers chase for sometimes years to get paid.
- The owner of the business is not only completely out of touch with the industry; refusing to consider new ways of doing things to drive his business in a positive direction, but has been witnessed making sexist and inappropriate comments towards staff.
- They forced staff to drive faulty vehicles to save having to pay for safe vehicles.