Home Group Reviews

3.8

76% would recommend to a friend

(368 total reviews)
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Mark Henderson

84% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Home Group has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 368 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Home Group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Non-profit and NGO industry (3.7 stars).

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368 reviews
1.0
26 Jul 2018

Toxic organisation

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Pros

I suppose the oppertunity to deliver services to vulnerable people. But you can do that anywhere.

Cons

The worst organisation I have ever worked for. Utterly toxic internal culture. The gap between the Newcastle HQ with it's religious cult like obsession with how wonderful everything is and the front line is jaw dropping. Awful management, constant reorganisation, bullying abd poor morale.

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Home Group Response
7y
Hi, thank you for your adding your thoughts. Here at Home Group we care passionately about our people and customers. Your insights really matter to us and we would love to have a chat to get more detailed and specific feedback that we can learn from. Please do drop us a line to arrange that! Simone email recruitment@homegroup.org.uk
1.0
12 Jun 2022
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Pros

- Reward Scheme - Remote Working - Canteen for days in the office - Good office decor Summary: On the surface, it appears to be a fantastic company and housing association with great interior designers.

Cons

- High turnover of staff in all areas - Lots of staff off sick long term, most due to work-related stress - Salary is advertised at a higher rate for new starters and existing staff are told to "go above and beyond" to get the same money - Systems are old, too many of them and they are constantly breaking - Poor bonus structures - A serious lack of communication and working together between staff, departments, management and to customers. Summary: I regret taking the job. It's emotionally draining and exhausting having to interact with toxic work colleagues on a daily basis. Home Group are full of beautiful, pretty words but very little action and buy in from the majority of management. They have a "Grow Our Own" initiative in a poor attempt to keep staff however the people selected are those with experience, which defeats the purpose of the programme. The customers are seen as numbers and irritants, money is the focus of the business. Not the customer and certainly not the employee. Myself and many others don't understand how they keep winning and being nominated for best employer awards. For the sake of your mental health, don't work here!

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Home Group Response
3y
Hello and thank you for leaving us your review and for your feedback. Whilst we are disappointed to read this, we do appreciate your honesty and the time you have taken to leave us your review. We are proud that our colleagues love working here and have voted us 5th best place to work in the UK, in the independent great place to work survey. Many of our colleagues celebrate long service each year, myself included – it’s my 20th anniversary working at Home Group this year! I love working alongside brilliant colleagues who are driven to make a difference for our customers. We are passionate about developing our own colleagues through ‘grow our own’ and many colleagues including those working in this team have been promoted to other roles in Home Group. We are proud of that, but do understand that this may cause additional pressures until we recruit backfill to the roles. This is something we will review to see how we can better support. We recently implemented a new CRM so this will streamline processes and will support colleagues better in their role. We are always looking at new ways of working so welcome any ideas on how we could improve our systems. Please do get in touch with us at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk if you want to share anymore feedback. We have shared your review with our managers in this team, so we can look into this further for you and of course learn from it.
1.0
5 Nov 2018
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Pros

Nice cafe in reception! Lovely friendly receptionists

Cons

HR don’t have your back, they scrutinise you to look bad Bullying culture No progression or credit for good work done Employ narcissist managers who make you feel ill with stress Massive staff turnover in IT

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Home Group Response
7y
Hi, am am sorry to hear your experience at Home Group wasn't as you would like it to have been. If you would like to discuss your insights in person, I would welcome that. Please drop me a line at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk so we can arrange that. Regards Simone
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