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      3.8

      68% would recommend to a friend

      (34 total reviews)

      61% positive business outlook

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      OCUS has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 34 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The OCUS employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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      34 reviews
      1.0
      3 May 2022

      Worst company I've dealt with in my life

      Food photographer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Absolutely no pros. Everything is terrible.

      Cons

      Pay is the worst in the industry by A LOT. The idea is that if there is enough volume you might get a somewhat decent day rate (as in, do lots of shoots and you might cover your costs kind of decent). But then you have to deal with things like shoots not being paid for and then going through the ringer to even get anyone to reply to a message. Not only do you do all their admin work (setting up the appointment, dealing with the restaurant owners who treat you like you're a cold caller etc... ) but then you need to discuss what you actually did. It feels like a total scam that has been running for quite a while now, capturing naive photographers all the time. I guess they can scoop from certain sectors until they get fed up and leave. Terrible, terrible company.

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      OCUS Response
      3y
      Hello, We appreciate you sharing this feedback with us, and we apologize for the delay in our response. Your feedback means a lot to us: it's how we're making progress every day! Regarding compensation, you should know that this topic is at the heart of our concerns and we are doing our best to design the future of imagery in a fair and scalable way. The more we succeed in obtaining promising markets, the more interesting the compensation will be for our Community. Please do not hesitate to reach out to us through our Help Center: https://support.ocus.com/hc/ to address any specific concerns and to move forward together. Have a great day, The OCUS Team
      3.0
      10 Sept 2020

      Food Photographer

      Photographer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Good experience on dealing with the client.

      Cons

      The payment can be improved. We need to pay for all the travel for the photoshoot and it makes your payment even less.

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      OCUS Response
      3y
      Hello, Thank you for sharing your experience working with OCUS. Have a great day! All the best, The OCUS Team
      2.0
      4 Dec 2025

      Gig Economy At It's Worst

      Photographer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      It's hard to find anything, really. Once upon a time the flexibility and ability to bend 'quick income' jobs to ones will and to fill the gaps was a nice bonus. I do still visit this system when I know I'm going through quiet periods, and frankly I believe it can be worthwhile, but you have to treat it very selfishly. Forget how Ocus operates and how insulting the pay is. Every now and then you get an interesting assignment available and this can mean meeting interesting people, business owners etc. and opens up further work opportunities. I've had multiple shoots off the back of a few quick Ocus shoots with restaurant owners who take their marketing seriously. It used to be a nice opportunity to visit different parts of the country, particularly when travel fees were available. And they are good at generating invoices and paying on the same day, which is pretty important where cashflow for freelancers is concerned.

      Cons

      Travel fees are now a distant memory, meaning you're limited to assignments in a very local area, unless you just want to go on a self-expensed road trip. Though they change their system like the weather, so I suspect with enough push back, this will return. Or simply when they realise that there aren't as many photographers in Kings Lynn as there are willing photographers with cars in London. The pay for assignments is a serious insult. No idea where this is generated but there are assignments out there that go for £33. Not worth getting out of bed for. I have no idea how these assignments actually get completed. But there are the odd 3 figure shoots dropped now and then. So again, if you can bend it to your will and get a few of those in an afternoon in one place, it's not the worst earner. It's just not a long term solution. The newest iteration of the portal online seems to be as wholly automated as you can possibly make it. Zero access to people, online chat help has gone. All a bit of a shame.

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