Reed Reviews

4.3

84% would recommend to a friend

(1,753 total reviews)
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James Reed

91% approve of CEO

79% positive business outlook

Reed has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,753 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Reed employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Human resources and staffing industry (3.8 stars).

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2K reviews
3.0
15 Sept 2021

Okay company

Recommend
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Pros

- Good commission structure - Nice people - Good training

Cons

- Not strong collaboration - Boutique size in Singapore

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Reed Response
4y
Thank you for leaving a review. It would be great to understand your cons in a bit more detail. Please feel free to reach out to claire.bacon@reed.com
4.0
2 Jul 2020

Great Place to learn

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good learning and development culture.

Cons

A bit behind the curve with new technology

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Reed Response
5y
Thank you for leaving such a positive review. We have recently implement a new digital workplace, enabling Co-Members to work remotely and utilising some of the most up to date technology.
1.0
2 Apr 2020
Recommend
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Pros

The training is good. They will make you believe you're part of something big.

Cons

Cons? The biggest cons are probably the company motto 'open, fair, honest, we take responsibility' and slogan 'improving lives through work'. Reed weren't open and honest about the fact that they'd been operating with decreased profits for 3 years in a row. Reed weren't fair when letting swathes of loyal, talented staff go during a global Pandemic when they needed leadership, direction and strength more than any other time. Reed didn't take responsibility for the fact that poor business decisions caused them to heamorrage money for 3 consecutive years, instead they chose to try and slip under the radar during the coronavirus Pandemic to let hundreds of staff go with no reason REAL reason and instead got line managers to read from a script. 'Improving lives through work' pushed by the CEO. How are you doing that Mr Reed, when you're taking away the work of your own staff? Finally, it's clear Reed is a sinking ship and you'd do well to avoid this business like the plague. You aren't valued.

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Reed Response
6y
Thank you for your review and I'm sorry you view the actions we've taken this way. As with everyone working within the recruitment sector, we find ourselves in a very challenging trading position; exacerbated by the lockdown imposed to combat the spread of Coronavirus. We have had to make some difficult decisions, which have involved the workforce accepting substantially reduced hours and pay, a streamlining of support functions and, continuing existing plans to release some Co-Members in fee-earning roles where they had already not been performing to our normal minimum standards or decline in trading within their specialism. In addition, we have applied the government guidelines in relation to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme in good faith and furloughed some eligible Co-Members. Based upon your review, unfortunately, you were not part of this qualifying cohort. Our Global MD has been extremely open and honest in regular Vlogs to the workforce to explain actions taken and why and I am pleased to report that REED remains on a very stable financial footing.
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