Pros
I really can't think of any. The whole ESG department works remotely and only meets in-person every three months or so, so there are no perks associated with e.g. working in the office and regular team socials. They now offer private medical insurance but this was already a standard offering at most equivalent sized companies.
Cons
I have genuinely never worked somewhere as toxic as Inspired. They want to appear as a reputable ESG consultancy firm for their clients but the upper management running the ESG department (which is still relatively new) treat employees with contempt. Any systemic issues like high turnover, lack of transparency and consistency regarding pay, unrealistic and growing workloads, lack of planning/organisation and isolation due to remote working (amongst many others) are not acknowledged and instead tackled through passive-aggressive emails, a 'no tolerance' approach to any breaches in project delivery timescales (even though these will be inevitable in a consultancy environment where most of the work relies on data/input from third-parties and external clients), a three-month notice period being imposed for all roles including entry-level analysts (when this would typically only be appropriate for senior level and management roles), firing and always re-hiring, no reasonable adjustments for those with disabilities, etc. Complete lack of respect and trust for employees, starting from the top and impacting staff morale all the way down to the most junior team members. Anyone reading this who is considering applying for or taking up a job in the ESG department at Inspired - please seriously consider not bothering. I wish I'd gone with my gut feeling when I first saw the negative reviews posted here already. I'm speaking from experience when I say you can find a much more rewarding role elsewhere, where you will be treated with respect. I saw enough people leave Inspired just due to the stress of working there, and the HR staff are always trying to take on lots of new QA and ESG Analysts precisely because lots of them don't stick around for more than 1-2 years.
