Argus Media Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Pros

Good work life balance Nice salary Good london office

Cons

As a current employee it has been brought to my attention that this company lacks (racial and cultural )diversity, which is a shame considering our headquarters is in one of the worlds most diverse cities. I feel as though this hinders the progression and potential of the company

Pros

For the majority of the time, Argus provided an excellent work/life balance, good career opportunities and strong support from immediate line managers to coach and develop talent. This was an excellent environment to show initiative, learn new skills, be given the opportunity to put them into practice and be recognised for it. Line managers also actively encouraged and valued new ideas and opinions, creating a working environment that was collaborative, productive and satisfying on both a professional and personal level.

Cons

A disappointing senior hire quickly demoralised and destroyed a successful department within a few short months. Established talent that had previously been invested in by the company left very quickly, leaving a significant skills, knowledge and capacity deficit. A toxic working environment ensued where people were no longer valued and opinions no longer welcomed. Weak leadership combined with severe staff shortages resulted in unmanageable workloads and extreme pressure on a few individuals to cover for the shortcomings of senior management.

Pros

Work/life balance is very good as are the pay and benefits generally. Some lovely people and a nice working environment, more opportunities recently.

Cons

There's a serious lack of transparency and clarity over promotions and pay rises. There's isn't a clear enough sense of expectations and goals and promotions are based on who you know / who is your manager. There's some serious holes in senior management and they don't engage enough with their employees. At the very top there's an old boys club that seems very difficult for anyone who isn't old, male and white to break into. It's demotivating to have no real sense of what you can achieve and how and to feel that no matter how well you do there is a limit on your progress just 'because' and so people leave to go elsewhere - loads of talented people have left in the last year for this reason.

Pros

Good work-life balance, collegiate atmosphere, relatively low stress work, interesting sector, opportunities to travel

Cons

Slow pace of work. Office lacks dynamism. Opportunities for advancement insufficient.