Pay isn't competitive. It's benchmarked and around average for the benchmarks, but Skipton is near several large cities that have higher pay and is difficult to get to in comparison so will need to start paying more if they want to attract staff now they're forcing everyone to work from the office.
Parking is atrocious, don't think there's enough for even a quarter of the staff.
"Anchor days" have proven without a doubt the return to the office isn't being done for business reasons. Managers are scrambling to find ways to use those pointless forced office days and there's no guidance apart from "collaboration." Even worse we are increasingly forced to attend utterly pointless on-site events that take us away from our actual work so the company can lie on LinkedIn about how successful their events are and what good use everyone is making of office time.
Constantly lies about the reason for forcing everyone back into the office. First it was the same collaboration and faster decision making lie so many other companies have used, now that has failed to convince the staff it looks like they have started using engagement as an excuse even though that was one of the few stats they released to justify the return to office and it was a miniscule improvement.
Completely incapable of taking negative feedback on board. Staff have been called entitled and told they should feel lucky they have a job after the last round of employee surveys.
Always talking about "new ways of working". By my count my team has been forced to change the way we work four times in three years, with two more changes already planned in for this year. It's a deeply unstable workplace with constant changes to roles, reorganisations and fear of redundancies.
Using the term "Blended Working" even though the implementation is barely even hybrid. You will be forced into the office no matter what, exception policies exist in written form but are totally ignored. Many staff with disabilities who were hired on the promise of remote work are going to be forced out of the business.
Obvious that the "modelling" they refer to constantly around return to office is negative for staff. They refuse to share it with anybody. It will be the same as every the modelling used by other company that suddenly decided to force a return to the office after a long period of remote work. Reduction in staff wellbeing and job satisfaction, neutral or minor positive effect on engagement, up to 20% of staff leaving without redundancies needing to be paid out.
