Looks good from afar, but get close & you'll see the ugly. - Marketing Specialist Adecco Employee Review

2.0
17 May 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Great learning opportunities. - Solid foundation to kick off my career. - Enough of a budget to actually do really fun marketing-based initiatives

Cons

Upper management in my department was awful and very much based on politics. One MARRIED man in particular - still there I might add - had an alcohol problem that would very much affect other employees. If he was drinking at an after work function or a work dinner/event, he would become inappropriate to female colleagues - including me at one point. He's faced a talking to from HR once for lewd behavior & yet, he still has a job & sits on the leadership team. I felt like leadership did not have the best intentions for employees. They often claimed to be transparent, but rarely were. Only for the first year did I ever really feel "safe" in my job, then when I saw three people in our department get fired in one day (very obviously and during the middle of the day), I got very anxious & nervous. Many of us did. The dynamic changed. I'm glad I got the work experience I did, but I do not miss that place. At all.

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Adecco Response
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Thank you for your review. We take these types of concerns very seriously and always want our employees to feel safe in their work environment. We would like the opportunity to look into this situation—please contact us at socialfeedback@adeccona.com so that we can get you in touch with an HR representative.

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