12 Aug 2022
Victrex Response
2yThank you for your rating and positive comments about our pension and some of your colleagues. Given one of our core behaviours is 'working together', it's a shame that you felt that half of the employees in Victrex were contributing to a 'toxic culture' whilst you were here. We want all employees to work in a positive, supportive and inclusive environment and our Victrex Values and Core Behaviours reinforce this. You have raised some very negative comments about your former colleagues in our HR team and we would challenge these. HR, as an 'enabling function' in the business, is there to support managers and employees and ensure a fair and consistent approach to the way our policies and procedures are applied. Ultimately, it's the responsibility of the leaders and line managers in our business areas, to make the decisions affecting their teams and team members, with support and advice from HR, as needed. We therefore feel that your comments about the HR team are unfair. We would also challenge your view that 'nobody wants to work there', given that, in our 2022 employee engagement survey, only 5% of employees expressed a negative rating when asked if they would like to be working for Victrex in 12 months' time. Similarly, only 3% expressed a negative rating when asked if they were proud to work for Victrex. The vast majority of our employees are therefore proud of Victrex and keen to keep working for the Company.
