Hays reviews

3.6

66% would recommend to a friend

(5,757 total reviews)
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Mark Dearnley

99% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Hays has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 5,757 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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Nov 4, 2025
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Pros

If you’re lucky, your reporting to can be nice, if you’re not lucky, then good luck. Diversity is good, L&D is ok

Cons

- 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

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