Scam/modern slavery - Personal Trainer Pure Gym Employee Review

1.0
Feb 15, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Training course provided Doesn’t require brain power

Cons

Everything. You don’t really get paid because you have to pay rent back to pure gym to PT. Depending on the gym, the rent is often more than what you get paid. Management doesn’t care about you, you’re just a number. You get assigned classes that you may not necessarily want to teach. The management will often make you teach multiple classes back to back with no rest. If you work in a pure gym with low income members then you’ll earn pennies because no one wants a PT. You have to work 12 hours as a fitness coach where you don’t get paid then you’re expected to work outside of those hours as a self employed PT to actually make money. You’re expected to do all the dirty work in the gym, cleaning, moving stock, etc, bear in mind you’re not actually getting paid. You’re essentially a glorified cleaner that doesn’t get paid. Manager at the pure gym I worked in is a bully, that constantly got protected by Pure Gym despite several PTs making complaints.

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5.0
Jun 4, 2026
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Pros

great culture and management is cool

Cons

none at all, very calm

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Pure Gym Response
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Thank you for your review! We’re so pleased you enjoyed your time as a PureGym employee, the PureGym culture is so important to us and our team, and we love hearing this feedback.
1.0
Apr 7, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The only “good” thing is the small percentage of new equipment and that some gyms are 24 hours.

Cons

Management is unfair, cutting hours and expecting a single worker to handle the entire gym. Incredible staff are undervalued, while third-party cleaners and side services pretend to solve problems they don’t. Members are chaotic, shifts are impossible, and yet leadership refuses to hire properly. Think smarter, not cheaper.

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Pure Gym Response
1w
Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review, we do appreciate all feedback and are sorry to hear that you are not having a good experience with us. We can see that you may be working with us currently, so would suggest that you reach out to either your Regional Manager or your HR Business Partner who will do their best to support.
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