Pure Gym Reviews

3.6

66% would recommend to a friend

(694 total reviews)
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Clive Chesser

68% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Pure Gym has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 694 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Pure Gym employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Arts, entertainment and recreation industry (3.9 stars).

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694 reviews
4.0
4 Nov 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Fun and lovely place to work

Cons

bad management and one person control all

1.0
28 Oct 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Some great staff and talented individuals. - Benefits are reasonably good.

Cons

- Lack of transparency around how the business is trading and financial performance. - Recent international expansion ventures have gone relatively poorly, with non-UK sites having poorer profitability This has resulted in necessary cost saving, ultimately culminating in redundancies. - Since 2021 & post pandemic, the overall leadership of the business appears to have taken significant steps backward. Pursuit of short-term profits (i.e year end targets) now appears prioritised over staff and their well-being. Long-term growth and staff retention is not considered as important as in previous years. - An arguably bloated leadership team structure is now in place. It is now a much more corporate, top-down structure, where views of staff lower down the rung are rarely considered or consulted. Worringly, the newer group business structure seems to mean fewer opportunities for progression for juniors, not the other way around. Responsibilities of those made redundant have then been dumped on already over-worked, more junior colleagues with no notice or clear explanation. Over the last 18 months there has been an increasingly toxic atmosphere within the business. I think this partly due to cost saving drives, but also due to out of touch leadership and lack of transparency and communication.

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Pure Gym Response
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Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review, we do appreciate all feedback and are sorry to hear that you are not having a good experience with us. We can see that you may be working with us currently, so would suggest that you reach out to your line manager or your HR Business Partner who will do their best to support.
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