a micromanged sweatshop - Anonymous employee HKA Employee Review

Thank you for sharing your views on HKA as a former employee. Thank you for noting HKA has some good clients - we agree with you. I apologise that I am slow to reply to your posting of September 2020. I joined HKA in April 2020 and as you would expect me to say; my priority has been to support our brilliant people during a pandemic; so only now am I able to progress all of the responses on Glassdoor. I was sad to read that you do not recommend HKA - that is such a shame and while I do respect that this is your opinion perhaps not surprisingly I do not agree with you. I am sorry you felt like "there is constant drive to be more profitable" due to our private equity investment company. While I do think our private equity investors are challenging us to be more profitable; perhaps like many Main Board's do in all profit making businesses; my experience is that our investors fully understand that we must and will put our people first and carefully manage each situation for the longer term success of HKA. As I am part of our leadership team; you may think I "would say this" - notwithstanding that the facts I have observed and been part of; I do not support your view that we are "simply puppets to the PE owners". Like any Executive Team we do what is right for our business for the longer term as that is our interest for our people and our business. I see you worked with us for 3-4 years in a senior role in London - thank you for your contributions to HKA's evolution. I am not sure where you are now; and I trust you are enjoying your new work and more importantly that you are keeping well during this pandemic. Thanks so much. Best regards Kate Wood Partner, Chief People Officer