Very un-professional experience - Anonymous employee CBRE Employee Review

2.0
Feb 8, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Big name with a huge diverse of business offerings so the ability to move within the brand name should be fairly possible. Overall leadership say the right things, does not always trickle down to the individual business units.

Cons

Facilities management arm of the business allowed to operate with little check and balance, acquiring a much larger EMEA wide business then shoe horning into their UK model. This followed many excellent and outstanding leadership casualties whose loss of knowledge will be greatly impactful to the business taking the organisation that was acquired back some 10 years - both commercially and operationally. A sad time for the business, and those making the decisions will not feel the impact as the front line staff take the day to day impact.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

Management's refusal to allow employees freedom. I routinely got praise from the client and hit the maximum score on my goals. If things weren't done "by the book", they were wrong. The health insurance was awful. Going to self-employment, one of the things that you hear is that you're going to pay a lot for health insurance. However, I'm actually paying LESS than when I worked for CBRE. When you work for CBRE, don't consider job security something that you're going to have. I saw two employees with 15+ years for the company get laid off, with zero severance and no option to transfer elsewhere, unless they wanted to uproot their families and move states for more work and a pay cut. This is the worst company that I've ever had the displeasure to work for. If you have literally any other option of employment, please consider doing that.

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