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IRIS Software Group

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IRIS Software Group reviews

3.7

67% would recommend to a friend

(865 total reviews)
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Jason Dies

75% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

IRIS Software Group has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 865 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The IRIS Software Group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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865 reviews
1.0
Mar 20, 2025
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Pros

Some of the staff are lovely.

Cons

Where do I even begin? I was part of an acquisition a few years ago, and since then, IRIS has steadily eroded all the perks and enjoyment of working here. We once had a stellar reputation in our industry—IRIS destroyed that. If IRIS acquires your company, my advice is simple: leave as soon as you can. They do not care about their customers or employees. Prices have skyrocketed in the past couple of years, and with extensive outsourcing to India, we are hemorrhaging customers at an alarming rate. This is not a company on the rise. Senior management is shockingly poor—there’s no real direction, just a relentless focus on profits. IRIS now has over 800 staff in India, and that number is only growing. If you join the company, don’t be surprised if your job is outsourced next. HR exists solely to protect the company—they do nothing to support employees and will only act in the business’s interest. The workload is overwhelming, and if you struggle (as most do), you’ll be belittled and made to feel like a failure. Pay is well below industry standards. HR claims it’s "benchmarked," but they manipulate job titles to justify this. Payrises are non existant. Employees have no voice. Senior management makes terrible decisions, completely ignoring staff input. There’s zero career progression or training. Don’t expect any investment in your growth. If you're considering a role at IRIS, think twice—this is not a place that values its people or customers.

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IRIS Software Group Response
1y
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review, although we’re surprised and disappointed by your comments. Acting on employee feedback is at the heart of everything we do. We’re very proud to have been certified as a Great Place to Work for 5 years running in the UK and after each Great Place to Work survey closes, we review the results and create dedicated action plans for each department based on their feedback, seeing significant improvements year-on-year. We also encourage employees to use our monthly employee engagement survey via Peakon so managers and senior leaders can act immediately. Managers are able to respond to comments directly and managers have left more than 20,000 responses to employees’ comments in the last 12 months. #CustomerFocus is one of our core values and we’re proud to be a member of the Institute of Customer Service, a renowned professional membership body dedicated to promoting service excellence across industries. Through this membership, we’ve run 2 surveys for employees and customers to benchmark ourselves against hundreds of other organisations and show us our drivers and focus areas. We’re also proud to conduct regular NPS customer surveys to gather valuable feedback on what we are doing right and where we can prioritise and invest in development and innovation to drive continuous customer-focused change across the business. We are delighted to have improved our NPS significantly and is at the highest it’s ever been. We’re also passionate about paying our employees fairly and competitively to reward their dedication and hard work. In our annual salary reviews each November, we work together with each department to assign increases using best practice and standardised rules. We also operate pay scales in select departments, which enable our employees to grow their salaries as their skills develop. In addition, we’re delighted to offer all permanent employees an annual bonus entitlement, which pays out each summer. We’re very proud of our extensive track record of growing via acquiring fantastic organisations, with great people who enable us to provide a greater range of products to our customer base. We recognise that going through an acquisition process can be challenging but we’re proud to have refined our acquisitions and integration processes through experience and have a dedicated team within IRIS focused on welcoming new businesses into the IRIS family. We’re delighted to have seen many rising stars from acquired companies who have taken their careers to new heights at IRIS. By joining a larger organisation, employees gain access to increased investment to develop their products, extensive training and development opportunities, and can participate in engagement initiatives, awards and benefit programmes which they may not have had access to previously. In the last 12 months, we’re delighted that IRIS employees have completed over 62,000 hours of learning through our learning management solution (LMS), live courses, apprenticeships or other qualifications at IRIS. This doesn’t include all of the amazing training delivered on a departmental basis. We’re sorry that this wasn’t your experience, and we encourage you to email EmployeeFeedback@iris.co.uk with any further comments. Kind regards, the HR team
1.0
Apr 8, 2022

Horrific

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Pros

- My close colleagues were helpful - You can spend days doing nothing at all apart from doing some self-improvment and look for new jobs. The managers have no idea, lol!

Cons

Oh boy. Where to start? The company I worked for (lets call is Ace LTD - because it was an ace company to work at) understood how to treat their employees with kindness, grace, and respect. They created a fantastic envrionment full of hard-working teams who pulled together to get the job done. We shared fantastic bonuses, and benefits. They understood that you were primarily at work to pay the bills, but why not actually enjoy yourself whilst being at work? Ace LTD was aquired by IRIS. That's where the trouble started. For the first year we were largely left alone. The only thing that changed was that a few senior staff left and were replaced by, frankly, idiots who didn't seem to either care or understand what we did. I learned later that they did - in fact - simply not care because this was not their first IRIS-Aquisition-Merry-Go-Round. The other thing that changed was that we lost around 8 days of annual leave and our Christmas thank-you/bonus. Now that most of the senior staff had left, IRIS came for the staff who worked in functions that could be centralised. They were discarded in what can only be described as a very dodgy (some might say illegal) redundancy process. Firstly telling the staff that they were being made redundant. Then - when the legalities around redundancy was explained to the senior HR people - back-tracked but denied that anyone had said the word "redundancy". There was lots of gas-lighting and weird metaphors used (including "mutual decoupling" to describe the redundancy process). Lots of teams got new team leaders. Some even were blessed to receive a merry-go-round of new line managers every few months. Not once in this period did any line managers take any interest in Ace LTD and what they did. I didn't have any 1-to-1 time with my managers for 2 years. I'm not even sure they knew my name. This horrific man-management is actually a pro: my managers (plural, I had so many different ones!) took so little interest in me and my colleagues that we just pleased ourselves. We finished and started work when we wanted. Took days off and nobody noticed. We noticed after a while that even being "available" on Teams didn't matter because nobody ever got in touch with any of us. We were stealing a living. It got to a point that I was so bored that I completed loads of free online courses and got a fabulous new job out of it. We all learned very quickly what the deal with IRIS was: Buy profitable company. Add "by IRIS" to its name. Scalp the customer-base and try to cross-sell. Sack anyone whose labour could be gotten cheaper by centralising or moving to India. Ignore the customers who complain. Buy another company. Refinance for the private-equity goons. Rinse and repeat.

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IRIS Software Group Response
4y
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review, although we are surprised and disappointed by your comments. With nearly half our employees joining us via an acquisition, we have refined our acquisitions and integration processes through experience and are now proud to have a dedicated team within IRIS focused on welcoming new businesses into the IRIS family (some members of this team even joined us via an acquisition themselves!). Although being a part of an acquisition can be a significant change, we work incredibly closely with our business leaders to maintain a positive culture and make significant investments in our new team members when we invite them to join our competitive benefits package and extensive training, development and progression opportunities. Our approaches are continually shaped by our employees’ views and expertise, and we are delighted to provide several streams of communication for employees to share their feedback, such as in our monthly Peakon employee surveys, through a variety of dedicated inboxes, speaking to our Employee Voice Ambassadors, and sharing comments in our annual Great Place to Work survey. We use all these platforms so that our employees can make an #IMPACT. We’re sorry that this wasn’t your experience and encourage you to reach out to our Chief People Officer, Stephanie Kelly, or our M&A Specialist, Deni Williams, in complete confidence, so that we can put things right. We’re always looking for ways we can be the best we can be, and we would welcome any further suggestions. Please contact EmployeeFeedback@iris.co.uk. Kind regards, the HR team
1.0
Oct 21, 2020
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Pros

Some good People however senior management team are the worst within the industry. CEO is blinkered and egotistical and focussed on herself and her own story.

Cons

Too many to list. The only genuine reviews here are the poor ones. Read and pay attention as this company is unethical and in a short while will be seen as a career "black mark". Terrible management.

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IRIS Software Group Response
5y
We are sorry that you have been affected by our recent restructure of the sales team. Covid-19 has created challenges across the world, and responsible businesses must adapt their operations to the new normal. Throughout, we always ensure we treat our colleagues with the dignity and respect they deserve. We would like to thank you for leaving a review, although we are of course disappointed by your comments. We are very proud of Elona, our fantastic CEO, and always encourage her to share stories of her journey and experiences so she can inspire others and help everyone across the IRIS family to develop the skills and confidence to be the strong and passionate leaders of the future. Elona breaks the mould in many ways (being a female CEO is just one example) and we are particularly proud of her passion for driving diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity for all. We’ve had great feedback from employees on how much they appreciate Elona’s regular communications (like her weekly Friday email with news and shout outs to our ‘IRIS Heroes’ from around the business) and her authenticity – including her stories of balancing life as a CEO and working parent which resonate for so many at the moment. We’re very proud to invest in training and development across the organisation, including running our dedicated ‘Leading with IMPACT’ training programme for our senior leadership team to enable amazing performance – giving them the skills and confidence to lead and motivate their hardworking teams and celebrate our continued successes. We are also rolling out a monthly feedback tool (Peakon) so that managers can get regular feedback from their staff to make sure they are feeling well managed and motivated. Please rest assured that all our Glassdoor reviews are genuine – we recognise that with 1,500 employees, there will be a range of opinions as reflected here, and we welcome the good reviews as an opportunity to celebrate and negative reviews as a chance to learn and grow. We have been proud to improve our employee engagement scores year on year (based on surveys across our teams), and we know our employees love our fantastic line managers, the great people we have working here, the opportunities for training, progression and development, our fantastic benefits package, our charitable initiatives, and the innovative awards and prizes on offer. We’re sorry to hear that you’re struggling the moment, and would really appreciate the chance to discuss your concerns in more detail. Please reach out to our Chief People Officer, Stephanie Kelly, in complete confidence so that we can help. Kind regards, the HR team
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