Low pay, ridiculous workloads, poor support from management, unsympathetic Human Resources department.
In my experience the pay is always below what other employers are offering. The workloads are ridiculous, you feel obligated to work out of hours unpaid to catch up on what you have not been able to complete during the day. Staff are being told to return to full time office working with no option to consider hybrid working, something most other employers are now embracing. The company has seen mass resignations over the past few months. From the people I have spoken to the reasons are always the same. Other employers are offering more money, less stress, and are embracing the new hybrid working option.
Some of the senior management team (my senior management team especially) are so detached from the real world, very “us and them”. I have come to class the “Management Suite” as Ivory Towers.
The Human Resources department are hands down the most unsympathetic and unhelpful I have ever encountered. If you ask them for help due to childcare needs (and we’re talking as little as a 15 min change to your finish time) you will get a textbook “we are not obligated to make this change” response. However, when the business wants to change your schedule to better suit them, and this change encroaches your personal timetable don’t expect the HR department to help you. All you will get is another textbook response saying that your contract of employment allows us to make these changes.
The in house developed apps hardly ever work, and as most of the IT department have resigned there is nobody available to fix them.
I would find it very difficult to recommend Reconomy as a potential employer unless you are a school leaver who doesn’t know any better. For anybody else my suggestion would be to find an employer who will value you better, reward you better and embrace the new world instead of being stuck in the past.