29 Jul 2021
InvoCare Reviews
2.1
19% would recommend to a friend
Eron Plumb
21% approve of CEO
18% positive business outlook
InvoCare has an employee rating of 2.1 out of 5 stars, based on 104 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The InvoCare employee rating is 42% below average for employers within the Personal consumer services industry (3.6 stars).
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104 reviews
1.0
21 Nov 2019
Working at InvoCare will make you jealous of all the deceased that come through because you will wish you were dead too
Former employee, more than 5 years
Melbourne
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
- Working in the funeral industry will make you interesting to people who do not work in the funeral industry. - The General Manager of VIC/TAS once told me I should just be thankful I have a job that pays me on time. - The company has such a high turnover rate that if you don't get along with someone there, don't stress because they'll probably resign within six months anyway. - If, by chance, you last more than one year, you're entitled to heavily discounted funerals for yourself and your immediate family. - Unlimited free pocket packs of tissues and pens.
Cons
- The place is a total old boys club. - The funeral industry is notoriously low paying and InvoCare is not an exception to that. - Most jobs at InvoCare do not require any qualifications so it's a mediocrity circus. - A lot of the staff try to deflect from their own incompetence by scrutinising and reporting every perceived error of others. The outcome of those reports relies heavily on the biases and agenda of senior management. - If you are a woman, you'll be expected to tolerate inappropriate behaviour and unwelcome advances from your colleagues. - Unbearable, toxic culture amongst staff who are old enough to know better. - Leave your ethics at the door because InvoCare guarantee female staff for their premium brand, but will have transfers, unattended cremations, and mortuary work completed by male staff, there is a doctor on the north side of Melbourne who issues cremation permits without inspecting the deceased's bodies and the branch staff assist in covering it up, some funeral directors forge signatures of family clients for hospital releases and cremation paperwork to make a funeral/committal happen quicker, some funeral directors will even lie to family clients about when a deceased was cremated, and you will be expected to turn a blind eye to all of it. - The CEO, during a television interview, compared preparing deceased in a mortuary to preparing meals in a restaurant kitchen. This is what he thinks of the dead.
1.0
29 Nov 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
● You get paid on time ● You get to use dated technology ● You will be entertained watching and listening to the "senior leadership team" scrambling around looking for someone else to blame when a problem arises. ● You will experience the eye roll - take it as a compliment that you are competent, then use it as your cue to skedaddle out of there and into a significantly better opportunity at a different Employer.
Cons
● Low wages ● Extremely low morale ● Invocare nurtures a culture of bullying, favouritism and overall unprofessionalism. ● It is inevitable that you will have never experienced such unprofessional "leaders" in your working life. ● Extremely high staff turnover- it is actually comical.
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