Needs decisive leadership and properly aligned incentives - Anonymous employee Buro Happold Employee Review

2.0
13 Jul 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1. Good colleagues 2. Diverse set of colleagues

Cons

No relationship between performance/behaviour and incentives Mediocre work output - lots of rhetoric, not reflected in work output Indecisive mediocre leadership Ambition to be global, but almost no diversity in leadership - gender, race, ethnicity or geography Hard for women to be successful Limited client base and geography of work Uncompetitive compensations Talk and meet a lot, do very little Siloed groups with little collaboration

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Pros

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Buro Happold Response
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Thank you for sharing your feedback. We’re really pleased to hear you value our flexible working and the diversity of our people. We take all comments seriously. Your feedback is hugely valuable, thank you so much for taking the time to leave a review.
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