Great State Reviews

This place has gone severely downhill in the past 12 months. Upper management are flailing around without any sense of direction, and are guided by knee jerk reactions to issues. The resourcing issues are atrocious, resulting in them bleeding money bringing in freelancers to do the work last minute, whilst furloughing or letting go permanent employees. There is also no room for career progression and they will tell some people that there's an agency wide salary freeze; yet other people will get promoted. They do not treat their employees like people; just vessels to pump out work and it is no wonder that more than a couple of dozen people have left this company in the last 12 months; it's a sinking ship.

Actually enacting change has historically been quite difficult, for lots of reasons. Mainly due to habit, in my opinion. There is a bit of a legacy of top-down control which stifles autonomy to some extent. There can be a lack of empathy between certain teams which can cause tension - caused by commercial realities most often, but which could've been anticipated and mitigated earlier on. There is quite a lot of fire-fighting that goes on that is unnecessary if certain habits / behaviours are broken and replaced with better ones - but it requires people to stop and think and plan ahead better.