Burnout and turnover - Account Manager PHMG Employee Review

1.0
Nov 2, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people you meet in your team

Cons

Outdated style of management. Outdated CRM. Outdated processes. Outdated culture. Outdated attitudes toward flexible working. Outdated leadership diversity. The only way things can get better in this company is if there’s an overhaul of senior management at the top, which will probably never happen. Too much ego running the ship with no emotional intelligence, old fashioned ways of managing people and a cringeworthy lack of care for employee wellbeing. Client Services staff are well and truly burned out and drained but there’s no accountability from anyone higher up. Constant pressure and change of targets/moving goalposts to then make people have to shift gears every 5 minutes and be on edge all the time… then get blamed if we don’t meet the next unrealistic expectation set out (and not even made properly clear). Major decisions like KPIs/targets are rushed through with no real thought put in. But sure it’s alright, they only affect our pay and our livelihoods during a cost of living crisis… Genuine top talent cannot flourish when you’re having to do your job with one hand tied behind your back: 450+ clients to work, unsociable hours in the office, an excruciatingly manual CRM, lack of resource, and directionless leadership with no sense of long-term planning, which inevitably makes top talent leave (in droves). It’s on-hold music for crying out loud and we work with clients who are across the ocean on Zoom… why do we need to be in the office 4 days a week please.. c’mon now. Get with the times, get with the real world.

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PHMG Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your experience and for your many years with PHMG. It’s great to hear that your team has been a positive part of your day-to-day work. We're concerned by some of the feedback to have given and would encourage you to use one of the channels available to you to escalate these issues. We always encourage speaking with your direct line manager in the first instance, but if you don’t feel comfortable doing so, our Workplace Champions are available to offer confidential support and guidance on next steps. Alternatively, the formal grievance procedure, available in the Employee Handbook, can also be followed. We are committed to modernising our tools, processes, and ways of working, Hence us rolling out Salesforce across Client Services in 2026, and the adoption of lots of new systems resulting in lots of automation across 2025. — People & Culture Team, PHMG

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