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      Oxfam

      Engaged Employer

      Oxfam reviews

      3.9

      66% would recommend to a friend

      (1,669 total reviews)
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      Mark Goldring

      68% approve of CEO

      52% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.0

      Culture & values

      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.3

      Senior management

      3.1

      Career opportunities

      3.0

      Compensation and benefits

      Oxfam has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,669 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Oxfam employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the ONG y Organizaciones sin fines de lucro industry (3.7 stars).

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      2K reviews
      1.0
      Sep 29, 2022

      Amazing charity but need a wakeup call

      Retail store/shop manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Large International Charity, Valuable contribution to life saving and life changing work, feel good factor, helping to fight poverty, helping to combat climate change, passing important working knowledge to the next generation, contributing to a better understanding of diversity and inclusion, fantastic colleagues.

      Cons

      Retail pay is appalling and embarrassing, regular restructuring of support staff, constant ill-considered change, top heavy management structure, extremely high expectations.

      3.0
      May 28, 2022

      A mixed bag

      Store manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Running a shop can be very enjoyable. You get a lot of freedom to make decisions, it’s basically your own business and you can run it however you think will raise the most money. It’s wonderful to get to know lovely volunteers from many different walks of life.

      Cons

      The workload is astronomical and the wages are not enough to survive on. The company refuses to hire paid shop assistants, which every other major charity has, so every shop is chronically short staffed. This puts a lot of pressure on the few volunteers we have. A huge amount of money is wasted on overpaid “work from home” head office staff who do absolutely nothing all day, and an endless chain of pointless senior managers and directors who just drive around the country taking photos to put on Facebook. It’s well known that senior management sees the retail side of the company as a massive inconvenience, and refuses to invest any money to fix staffing problems, dilapidated buildings, and ancient IT equipment.

      3.0
      May 17, 2022

      Too many restructures!

      Project manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Lovely colleagues, really decent flexible conditions

      Cons

      Constant restructures as the senior leadership team make unrealistic plan after unreaslistic plan. Restructures leads to instability, constant change, and can't get work done.

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