Hays reviews

3.6

67% would recommend to a friend

(5,762 total reviews)
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Mark Dearnley

99% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Hays has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 5,762 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Hays employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Recursos humanos industry (3.8 stars).

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6K reviews
2.0
Feb 18, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Global company that offers the opportunity to work in different locations across the globe. Clear career progression / promotion structure. Clear and regular performance review system in place. Despite everything they manage to employ some great people who are really up for making it work.

Cons

Long work hours. Immature work force and management style. Outdated 'gun ho' senior management style - don't seem to move with the time or appreciate the needs of employees. I worked for them for 8 years and they are still using the same tried and tested formula that isn't consultative and is all about making money. The constant focus on dollars undoes genuine innovation as there's no room to do anything different. Micro management is rife and people get to senior management roles from hanging around the longest. They lock their poorly educated old school senior sales managers in so that they commit to Sydney mortgages and kids in private schools and can't afford to change jobs - so they just hand around like dead wood because they know they don't have the skills to be able to go and do anything else.

2.0
Sep 2, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good spirit and morale betweeen colleagues. Good people work there and I have made some great, life-long friends.

Cons

Favouritist towards certain members of staff, rewards based on length of service, not skill. Bad management style and strongly in denial towards the staff about any threat of credit crunch/recession. Very long hours and often it seems that if you don't stay late most nights you are scowled at and it is noticed. Also as the workforce is quite young there is a lot of immaturity and inappropriate behaviour in what is meant to be a professional environment. Very poor comission structure in relation to others in the industry.

1.0
Jul 30, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you are willing to work all the hours that God sends then you have potential to earn good money at Hays. In commission payments, not as a salary. That is the only reason that you should consider Hays as an employer.

Cons

Appalling work life balance. You will work 55 hours a week here. Fact. You will not be able to afford not to. Very poor management. Managers are promoted on their sales ability, not their management ability. Non-existent benefits package. Generally uninspiring and not particularly intelligent colleagues.

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