Lifetime Group Reviews

If you want to actually train people and teach them this is not the job for you. If you like reporting numbers on a daily basis and working to pressured targets in a training based environment then this job is better suited to you. Reporting is relentless, daily reports have to be submitted in the above mentioned IT systems, followed by further daily email reports by excel to management and daily phone calls from managers about what you plan to achieve numbers wise. Training an apprentice actually probably only accounts for 15 or 20% of the job. If you are good at a balancing act with numbers and can be perceived to be hitting targets and managing workload then you will do well in this company. Even if you don’t actually hit targets, manipulation of the IT systems is possible (such as putting in phoney meeting/bookings to get % up, which is encouraged). If you are a top quality teacher/trainer who cares about quality delivery then you will hate it. Ironically you don’t receive such keen reporting back from management about what bonus you achieved at month end and who it accounts for, this information is impossible to find out! Very hypocritical from a company that put people on personal improvement plans for failing to keep on top of information sharing.

I think I could spend all day saying how bad this company is, so let’s start with Covid. Lifetime made most of its employees furlough (receiving 80% of their salary from the Gov), knowing how hard it would be to find new jobs, they made this who were NOT made furlough work at a REDUCED SALARY AND HOURS, meaning that those working twice as hard or even more, were getting paid 80% if their salary while other employees were at home doing nothing and also getting the same 80%. They justified that by means of protecting the company and that the effort made was for the greater good and etc... they also gave members of the same teams different reduced hours meaning that the same team was working not only reduced hours, but also with less people everyday as those employees would have different days off. When things started to get better, they kept the promise of salary going back to normal and that promise came together with: let’s make around 700 people unemployed even before the benefit from the government (the furlough scheme) is over. Those people that worked hard at a reduced salary were then suffering the risk of being made redundant. Ridiculous! I ever heard from some of the management “working at 80% is fine that now I am not going to pubs so I am saving money” as if people didn’t have other bills to pay or commitments. This company has no progression whatsoever, I believe some low paid people have to way more qualifications than managers and high up people. Everything in this company does not work, hence they are closing down the commercial department. Avoid at all costs, would probably have a better Work x life balance working anywhere else.