An employer that talks about caring for its employees but really doesn't
Pros
The headline policies e.g. equal parenthood leave and aiming for gender and sustainability targets suggest a company that cares and many employees there do.
Cons
After a move to allowing more flexibility in working practices they announced a requirement to work in the office 80% of the time. This has been done regardless of the fact that many employees were employed on the basis of not having to come into the office anything like that often. This has been done when everyone has less money and regardless of the fact that it will reduce the likelihood that women will join the business if they have childcare responsibilities, meaning there is no way to meet the 50:50 gender split. They also removed company cars after introducing new, lower emission cars with far lower benefit in kind tax. This was done after encouraging employees to leave the scheme during the lockdown as they were not being used and had high tax.
