Dishonest, untrustworthy employer - Digital Cheil Employee Review

1.0
19 Mar 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Cheap café offering fairly decent drinks in the office Met some great people Provides a decent addition to the CV (Samsung)

Cons

No clear sense of vision or planning Literally 0 opportunities for progression or development Lack of care regarding retention of staff Brutal paycuts in 2020, supposedly brought about by the pandemic Various consultants and directors on exorbitant salaries, financial incentive for those who actually deliver client work is minimal Non-existent training/onboarding programme for new starters Attempted to coerce people into working full-time from a different location miles away from the London office, without any consultation whatsoever Lack of transparency from HR team before taking on employment - was told that every member of staff is on a fixed-term contract, which is categorically not the case

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Cheil Response
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Thank you for your feedback, it is a shame your experience with Cheil didn't meet the expectations we have for all our talent. As you say, we have fantastic people at Cheil and they are vital to all our success. We have set out a number of new measures to further improve our employee development programmes. Most crucially we have relaunched our performance management program to better support development and progression of our talent and we have rolled out a suite of training programs for all our managers. I understand the pay cuts last year were very tough for everyone and we thank everyone involved for their hard work getting us through it without having to make any redundancies during that period. We are glad that period of the pandemic is behind us as we focus on growth for the future. As a direct action to improve our two way communication with our employees and to improve the employee voice, led by HR, we have expanded our misconduct reporting app Vault, to include Suggestions for a Better Cheil, where we do provide opportunity for employees to suggest change they want to see and from there, we strive to action changes.

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Cons

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