Hays reviews

Hays are not known for paying very well, in fact it is a sink or swim environment with very little or ongoing training particularly on the job training to help you suceed. The business model is to bring in people fresh to recruitment, throw them in the deep end and see what happens. Another major problem is their branch managers are expected to bill which in itself is a full time job. It is very difficult to do the two jobs at once which means one of them has to suffer. If a manager wants to make money they need to bill which in turn means failure for the new and inexperienced recruits.

- Constant redundancies (whole departments in some cases) and still expect the same quality of service, despite working on a clunky system on old laptops with less heads - Outsourcing job tasks to India on a weekly basis, even customer facing roles - Good luck if you have an IT problem, that’s been outsourced too - Communications from the CEO Tom Way are cult like - Culture has dropped dramatically since Tom Way joined due to the very harsh and quick cost savings techniques - along with a smug sense of entitlement - Flexible working is being cut massively, likely have to be in the office full time soon - Morale is absolutely terrible, for example nobody wants to talk for two minutes at your desk in fear of being told off for being too loud by management - Speaking of, WAY too much management, nobody can make a decision - Staff are too scared to voice their opinion in fear of being in the firing line for redundancies. Even if they did, nothing would happen - All these cost cutting measures whilst the CEO refurbishes and expands his personal office to his ‘taste’ - They even stopped offering the flu jab to employees to save costs (under the guise of “low turnout”, which is false) - Management too busy on the phone all day to manage the department effectively, allowing the culture to spiral