Oxfam reviews

3.9

66% would recommend to a friend

(1,668 total reviews)
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Mark Goldring

67% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Oxfam has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,668 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
5.0
Sep 8, 2016

Great Place to Work

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Light, spacious building, canteen on site, great career progression, good emphasis on personal goal setting, friendly teams, sense of purpose. Company values and mission are at the heart of all they do.

Cons

Long, often tedious processes to get things done. Lower salary scales then other organisations

1.0
Aug 28, 2016

oxscam

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Very few: The organization has--or had--a good mission. There are many decent people who work for it.

Cons

It is bureaucratic, top-heavy with management, intellectually shabby, wasteful of its donors' money while paying its employees below-market salaries. It has embarked on a foolish reorganization.

1.0
Apr 18, 2024

Would not recommend to anyone

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Pros

On paper it is a very inclusive and progressive organisation. There is the satisfaction that the money you're making is doing some good in the world.

Cons

Sadly, I could not honestly recommend being a Shop Manager or Deputy Shop Manager to anyone. The workload is impossible and exhausting, and nothing is being done to change that. I don't know of a single Shop Manager that is not working extra hours for free, and regularly skipping lunch breaks, to get the work done and keep the shop open. Because the pay is so low, this, in effect, this means working for less than minimum wage many weeks. I am really good at this job (which is reflected in my shop's takings), and do enjoy it sometimes, but most of the time feel completely overwhelmed due to being so understaffed and unsupported (volunteers are no replacement for actual paid staff)

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