Business Services - Anonymous employee Buro Happold Employee Review

1.0
Feb 25, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Company is very social if you drink.

Cons

The company seems to promote employees on years of service rather than suitability, skills for the jobs and how they work with employees lower than them (especially managers). No real training and roles aren’t really explained properly on what work is to be covered. Mostly working it out by yourself with no help from managers. Had to rely on other employees in the same role in other offices through Skype. Not introduced to the teams you are working with.

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Buro Happold Response
7y
Hello and thank you for your response. We always value feedback. We are sorry to hear this has been your experience, we strive to be an inclusive employer offering a range of social activities suitable for all such as, football, tennis, badminton, running clubs, book & photography clubs and themed dinner nights. We appreciate your feedback on this matter and will review how we publicise our events internally. Our promotions are based on competency frameworks, through which we assess with suitability for progression. Promotions at manager level are managed through an interview process, exploring suitability and competence. As a global organisation the need to work remotely is inevitable and have promoted the use of platforms such as Skype to enable our employees to work in an agile manner. Collaboration is key, it is disappointing to hear this was not your experience so once again we will take this back and review the unintended consequences of this form of communication. We take your reference to bullying very seriously and would invite you to take the opportunity to have a confidential meeting with a member of our HR team should you feel comfortable doing so or submit your feedback in confidence to our third party survey providers who run our exit interview surveys, details can be provided on request. Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback.

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Buro Happold Response
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Thank you for sharing your feedback. We’re really pleased to hear you value our flexible working and the diversity of our people. We take all comments seriously. Your feedback is hugely valuable, thank you so much for taking the time to leave a review.
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