DGI Reviews

3.7

67% would recommend to a friend

(154 total reviews)
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James Parkhouse

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63% positive business outlook

DGI has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 154 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The DGI employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Hotel and travel accommodation industry (3.6 stars).

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154 reviews
2.0
11 Feb 2024

Favouritism and micromanagerial

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Pros

Work Remotely, can be interesting depending on the trip you’re given, opportunities to network with universities, lots to learn and expand on within the wider industry.

Cons

Unattainable targets, not enough trips to go around to reach those targets. The favourite staff get the best trips, also the better trained staff. Training was atrocious- when you struggle you’re then interrogated on why trips are lost. Ridiculous mark ups are expected on almost all trips. Ambush teams calling which ends up being very stressful and counterproductive. Not the best place to work if you have any form of ADHD etc as it is a very overwhelming and sensory overloaded job. Mass “sacking” of staff when the company hired too many and realised they couldn’t afford them - so the end of their probation was used as an excuse. Some days left me wanting to just cry or hyperventilate as it was too much stress on very little support. What support was there at times you were made to feel like a faliure, or an inconvenience. Some people handed career moves without the jobs being offered team wide. Say the management “love” the team collective experience but then some staff with specialist knowledge and experience are totally ignored.

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DGI Response
2y
Thank you for sharing your review. We are sorry to read some of your comments and would like to take the opportunity to respectfully respond. Our Study Trips team is busy and continuing to grow. It offers a fantastic opportunity to work with a network of universities and create exciting itineraries, and we are pleased you enjoyed this element of the role. Many of the roles in this team also offer a high degree of home-working which again can work really well for employees looking to reduce lengthy commute times. We are sorry that you felt that the targets you were set were unattainable. Within Study Trips, our Sales and Operations roles offer a generous commission scheme which is based on performance. Where targets are achieved, bonuses are paid monthly, in line with our pay schedule. During probation, members of staff are on a reduced target that phases up to full target by the end of the probation which enables them to build up their pipeline effectively. Staff in probation still have the opportunity to earn significant commission whilst on a reduced target. All enquiries are shared across the team to ensure everyone has a fair opportunity pipeline against the target they have been given. We are also sorry to read your comments in relation to training. This is something we are currently looking at and we are working closely with our L&D team to improve the onboarding experience for Study Trips staff. In certain roles training has been seen to be most effective when learning on the role, and in these situations we give simpler trips to newer members of staff to help them learn our processes of our systems. In terms of new opportunities, we follow our Recruitment process for internal and external candidates. Roles are advertised to the business and we encourage internal progression of our employees. Our Study Trips team is busy and consequently has expanded in size by 40% over the last year. To support this growth, we have created a structure within the team that consists of 3 dedicated Sales Teams, each with a Team Manager, plus 4 Senior Executives to assist in supporting newer members of staff. The Sales Team is also supported by the Operations Team who are responsible for ensuring the quality of our trip packages. The managers have weekly catch ups’ with every individual to run through every single trip within their pipeline, listen to any areas of concern and see what support is required. In addition each team member meets with their manager for a monthly 1:1 meeting. On average, our managers have 5 years’ experience within our business, and are therefore well placed to support their teams day-to-day and help individuals to achieve their long-term goals and development. Thank you again for your comments and for our opportunity to respond, and we wish you the very best for the future.
1.0
9 Jul 2024

Poor company to work for - do not recommend

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Pros

Homeworking Some people that work there are genuinely nice people but not enough unfortunately

Cons

There is no professionalism or structure at all in the company. They don’t care about you, only numbers and money. They play the blame game when things go wrong and let you go without warning just to save money, it doesn’t matter if you have done a good job they just pick out a couple of bad things and say they can’t keep you anymore. Everyone always feels like they have to watch their backs. No support from anyone. Bonuses unachievable and when you do hit target they will find a way to not pay you your commission. Company update videos are just there to put everyone down. No motivation.

1.0
19 Jan 2024
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Pros

You can work from home if you want Opportunity to be creative with pricing Good overtime rates when there is not enough staff to do the job in the day

Cons

Severe lack of communication. What little info you do receive seems to have been passed down the chain, and down here at the bottom of the chain you are lucky to hear anything at all. Different managers share different info with their teams. Teams then cross share and the message received is very different. But you are occasionally treated to a rambling message from the top, full of jokes that aren’t funny and so many paragraphs of nonsense that delete is the only option. And when it comes to important information or new systems an email is all you will get (or maybe just a Teams message, why bother with an email. Definitely don’t bother with an in person meeting to discuss anything important. It would be wrong if everyone had an equal chance to listen and ask questions). You will have to figure it out for yourself after an email. Also cross department communication does not exist. Cross department battles however, they do exist. There is no guide or instructions on how to do anything as a consultant. Everyone is doing things differently. So many mistakes are made because of this. Our clients suffer because you don’t know how to best use the systems we have. A lot of consultants don’t have any experience in the travel industry so clients will be sent quotes with extortionate costs and illogical suggestions. This leads to a complaint that another consultant has to fix, which is a waste of everyone's time. The business doesn’t learn from this, complaints aren’t logged, and no real consequences for us either. We continue plodding along sending meaningless apologies to customers and then repeating the same mistakes. Management don’t care so long as the money is coming in. But when the clients leave (the service is poor, or course they leave) and the money slows down they panic. A lot of people have recently left the business because of ‘performance issues’. These people had mostly never had a conversation about this or sufficient training to prevent such issues. And when there is not enough work to go around it is cruel to determine someone's future based on sales when they didn’t have enough work to make sales in the first place. There is a lot of worry amongst those left behind. Unless you are in one of the ‘special’ teams who have some ringfenced clients and therefore guaranteed sales. It is very cliquey and elitist. The bake off competition for senior managers helped massage their over inflated egos nicely. Monthly (unrealistic) targets will not be received until midway through the month (at best). Constantly we are told this will change. It never does. I could easily waste an hour or more trying to pay for something on behalf of a customer, the tools we have are crap. And then I’ll be interrupted by a call which won't have been fairly or correctly routed to me because the call management is not fit for purpose, so I’ll just keep the customer on hold while I transfer to someone else who may well do the same thing again. I might also need to transfer a call when my system crashes for the 10th time in one morning. If I get a gap in calls I might check the unsophisticated rota to see what I am doing next week (it won’t have been factored in that so many people have left so I’ll be asked to change my shift anyway). I might even request a holiday which will probably cause uproar because they do like you to plan your life in Nov for the next 12 months. I won’t call in sick however because I won’t get paid.

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DGI Response
2y
We are sorry to read your comments but feel that we need to address some of the points that you raise. Like many businesses, we continue to evolve our communications to a more fragmented workforce, spread across offices, along with hybrid and home working. We share information in a number of ways, such as centralised townhall meetings, email communications, online training sessions, weekly department/team meetings and individual 1-2-1s/coaching sessions.. That’s not to say that we cannot do more, and we will always work on finding the best way to keep everyone in the loop of what’s going on. Many of the points you have raised present a personal viewpoint and, if you are an existing employee, we would ask that you raise what is most important to you via a medium that allows us to listen and work with you on addressing these key points. More broadly however, we would like to point out that in the “Your View” company-wide survey, which all employees in the business had the opportunity to contribute to before Christmas, 96% responded that they are proud to work at Diversity Travel and 91% said that they would recommend working at Diversity to a friend. Whilst these stats do not fully address the points that you’ve raised, they are indicative of a company that the vast majority enjoy working for.
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