Pros
Has a lovely sense of team work and the people employed across the group make the day enjoyable. Company has grown fast, which has been positive for some but is at risk of losing the culture. Group benefits are good, and intentions are well placed with a framework in place.
Cons
Fast growth and promotions of inexperienced line managers leads to staff being overstretched and spread to thin with excessive workloads, which is brushed under the carpet year on year to keep overheads down. This heavily impacts work/life balance and overall emotional well being, with no support from senior management when you have got to burn out stage (even though they say they do) Although values and development opportunities are promoted heavily, in certain areas of the buisnesses you do get overlooked, with limited development opportunities, career progression and salary kept below market level which leads to feeling under valued and overworked. This is only in certain pockets, however if you are unfortunate enough to be in this criteria, your efforts and work output are devalued and has a negative imapact on your overall wellbeing. Resource is not always replaced, and you end up taking on more and more work, doing 2 or more peoples jobs, with no enhancement to salary. The family feel and being able to make a difference has been replaced with red tape and a more corporate, cog in wheel approach due to the engagement of senior board directors from large blue chip, unpersonable organisations. The keep your word value is promoted, but not demonstrated from the top/board level with a lot of promises that are not delivered. It is common for people to leave and then replacements bought in on a higher salary, and does feel that if you are a female your salary/package is not as good as males (once again this is in certain pockets, not all) It seems a shame to lose the people that have dedicated years of hard work, made significant impact and improvements, saving the businesses money to bring new people in who lack the understanding of the business on a higher salary when they hold significantly less experience and industry knowledge? There is limited female presence in the management teams across all three companies, and the old school boys club mentality is still in place, which again contradicts the efforts made to promote the construction sector to females across all the companies, including Tamdown and eSmart Networks.
