Ted Baker London Reviews

A lot of people, particularly senior people, have been at Ted for a very long time. Whilst it is absolutely great to have that level of retention, sometimes this means there is a lack of experience or best practise understanding in those setting Ted's direction. There is a lack of senior leadership development, and senior meetings are often "lecturing sessions". The company needs to stop paying lip service to succession planning and appreciate there are some in the company with more diverse experience who could and would contribute more. The organisation is extremely siloed with little interaction between departments, often leading to duplication of effort and inefficiency. Some people with responsibilities have been given those responsibilities purely because they have been at Ted a long time. This is wrong. Length of service should not be the only or the significant contributing factor to someone's role. Look deeper at capability, or at least developing capability, before these positions of responsibility are handed out. UBB is a painful place to work (unless you are lucky enough to work on the 1st floor). Signs with ridiculous rules everywhere (Example: "for trustees only", "for guests only", errr why can't the staff have equivalent services?), CCTV everywhere, complete mess Everywhere under desks, bins, printers, meeting rooms. Dozens of mails every week about broken loos, checking in and out of the building, the maximum length of the lunch queue, fire alarm tests.... please can you focus these signs and messages at people that have never worked in an office before or don't have any common sense? If you're employing people that don't know how to work a toilet..... Why has the first floor been refitted at a cost of millions while the rest of us that keep Ted running sit in this squalor? Completely unfair (and in some cases downright dangerous) and shows that Ted has lots of respect for the creative teams and NO respect for the back office functions elsewhere in the building. Rumours of future plans for the building but nothing announced or shared. Oh, and the music. The constant, incessant music. Is it really necessary for us to feel like we are working in a shopping mall? CEO is self indulgent and fancies himself a comedian one moment and a dictator the next. Thankfully, he designs really pretty clothes.

Some of the worst managers! In our department if you were not sitting at your desk by exactly 9pm, an email would be sent around head office to say that you were late. Head office is run like a school. For example, during lunch there must be someone seated at each block of desks. You can't say join your team for lunch because you would be told off. I had an extremely poor manager who was so terrified of upper management that she would blatantly lie or push any errors onto her team - anything to protect herself. My manager didn't even want to allow me holiday to attend my brother's wedding. Interns are severely overworked and are always told that they should feel privileged to work at Ted. Ted is notorious for its overworked staff and low pay. I have many friends who received "promotions", with no salary increase or change of job title! Many people at head office were unhappy when I was there and fought to get out. I still have quite a few friends there and it has not changed since I got out. Get in, get a year's experience and get out!