It’s a hugely stressful environment. I don’t usually write reviews but I feel it my duty to let new employees know of the mental health risks that are involved with being an employee at Informa BI.
The business runs on numbers and whether you do your job well or not, you must embrace a culture of risk. The nature of the business means it needs to change all the time and therefore you feel like your job is always at risk. You will feel the whip come down from your manager when business targets are looking to fall short. The way of dealing with this is instilling fear through many mediums.
The business doesn’t seem to care that employees know that there are certain employees being pushed out of the business. You will hear stories of people being paid well to leave or life being made very difficult for them.
While I was there there were easily 15 people I knew who signed off for stress at some point. Some of those quit.
I watched whole teams being underpaid and overworked to the bone only to be made redundant. Teams seem to change all the time.
Training is non-existent as they decided to scrap the L&D team when the business needed extra funds. You can expect this when the organisation needs money. Pay freezes and promotion freezes on and off.
The HR team that was there when I joined as well as the recruitment team have changed so many times and at one point it seemed they had all left. Whenever I bumped into them it was obvious how overworked and stressed they were. A few of them were there one day and literally gone the next.
One thing you need to live with at Informa is that salaries aren’t transparent and it appears there isn’t any salary structure. I know of huge differences between team members. The business needs to throw money at new employees to get them over from competitors however there are very good current employees in the same roles on much less. Two people in the pub on the same role had a discussion once and one was being paid almost half of the other. I remember the number being over £10,000 difference. My advice would be to push the top end of the salary if they offer you. You will likely get more money.
