Steer clear of the hypertoxic Singapore office.
Pros
UK team members were lovely and engaged. The small number of clients were a pleasure to work with, and the projects were interesting and challenging. The salary was decent.
Cons
The regional CEO is an incredibly toxic personality and has bullied countless staff out of their roles in the past few years. She is an aggressive micro-manager who insists on sitting in on even the most trivial of client meetings. Despite this level of oversight, she is ill-equipped for the role, with a poor understanding of the principles or practicalities of agency work. This leads to unrealistic, unreasonable or pointless demands - pulling your time away from the real work. All this means, in practice, is that you work far more hours than you really need to. As a result of the poor management and high turnover, there is a continual loss of clients and an increasingly poor perception of the agency in the Singapore market. Global management is reluctant to sort this problem out, to the detriment of current and future team members, clients and the wider Grayling brand. You can expect to be shouted at, talked over, ignored, harassed and bullied while your colleagues fall over themselves looking for ways to exit the business. You are better off looking elsewhere, than trying to explain to your next employer why you were only with Grayling for a few months.
