What's the antonym for progressive? - Anonymous employee Acosta Group Employee Review

1.0
9 May 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

My immediate team is great. 401k match.

Cons

We love to say how people focused we are which is hilarious. Just got told we have mandatory in-office days of Tues / Wed / Thursday despite being on target year after year and having enough capital to continue purchasing other companies. Morale was decent because we had some level of flexibility - now there's zero flexibility and it feels like a prison. People are literally walking around with clipboards to make sure you're here, you have to send office managers notes to say if you're sick or on PTO so they can compare against badge swipes. False sense of culture - we're not in kindergarten, stickers and candy aren't it. The 'perks' we do get like mat leave are bare minimum at best - it's just short term disability with pay caps. There's 87 HR people you have to reach out to for simple things and you get no answers and incorrect documentation. Employee systems are a joke and there's about 52 of them. Our PTO request page looks like it was drafted using excel as a guide. Actually, excel is better.

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5.0
20 May 2026
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Pros

Like the people I work with

Cons

Hybrid work environment and should be remote

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Acosta Group Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your perspective. It’s great to hear that our teams are enjoying working in a collaborative and welcoming environment. Strong relationships with peers and with our partners are a cornerstone of our success, and we’re proud of the community our team has built together.
2.0
5 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The remote work options are a genuine benefit and the work/life balance is reasonable, you are unlikely to be asked to grind evenings and weekends. There are also some genuinely amazing, talented and hardworking individuals scattered across the organization who make the day-to-day more bearable. Great place for those early in their careers looking to get broad exposure to the retail space.

Cons

If your company has been acquired by Acosta Group, consider your options carefully before deciding to stay. In my experience, the acquisition environment comes with significant challenges: - Compensation stagnation regardless of performance, while executive bonuses remain unaffected - Benefit packages that are costly to employees and provide limited real value - Little to no internal mobility or growth opportunity - Aging tools and infrastructure that limit what you can accomplish - Hiring practices that prioritize internal relationships over qualifications - Workload expectations that routinely exceed what a single role should carry without corresponding compensation - Management that is largely inaccessible and avoids direct communication with their teams I stayed longer than I should have hoping things would improve. They did not. If you are weighing whether to make the transition with your acquired company, my honest advice is to evaluate your options sooner rather than later.

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