Branded Division - Culture Issues
Pros
There are amazing career opportunities and compensation is generally pretty good and a decent benefits package
Cons
My experience is limited to a specific division but I had to leave and experience a positive working culture to truly appreciate how bad this one was. There was a shocking blame culture which rewards placing blame elsewhere and didn't encourage honesty. Despite the companies outward attempts to appear caring and considerate of employees welfare this is not practiced in any way at Director level, let alone down through the chain of command. Whenever work is completed, it would never be about the 95% you have delivered but the 5% you didn't - nothing you did was ever good enough. By all accounts this hasn't changed since I left. I do feel the company needs to focus less on appearing like a great place to work and actually focuses on being a great place to work. I believe this is true across multiple areas of the business. l appreciate that flexible working is a benefit and a new one at that but being asked to travel into the office for no other reason that someone is coming and it needs to look busy is a joke. I wouldn't deter anyone from working at Next but it would be on the following guidance. There are opportunities, you will be paid but Next will always get it's way.
