King Living reviews

3.9

66% would recommend to a friend

(81 total reviews)

David Woollcott

94% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

King Living has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 81 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The King Living employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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81 reviews
2.0
Aug 25, 2022

You’re just a number

Recommend
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Pros

Employees have the same vision and enthusiasm. Welcoming at first by higher management. Great brand and product.

Cons

Definitely feel like a number. Snotty attitude from higher management. No room for growth. Salary expectations are below other competitions.

1.0
Aug 2, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

2022 - If your direct SLT is the flavour of the month, you'll get promotions and payrise, or they'll create new roles. There was a point where King was a great place to work, 2019-2021 where all the SLT members & leaders were respected and valued.

Cons

Poor work culture stems from the person at the top, allowing favouritism and schoolyard gossip behaviour, no level of professionalism, or proper ethics. End of 2021 to date, a total of 4 SLT members resigned. Recruitment, 2021 to date average 7-9 FTE down, consistent for most of retail and operations. Department managers and supervisors complete recruitment process ontop of their JD duties. (Call screening, interview process aswell as emailing new hire onboarding start dates and documents) Only involvement from HR is notifying payroll of onboarding new member start date. (A brand new team of 5 headcount. (2019-2021 HR headcount was 3, recruitment was managed and managers were only expected to sit in on final interview process) Team member or management having to continually fight for payrises or compensation for additional duties taken on. no support, overworked, under paid. Never ending customer complaints via in person, email or social media, department managers and their leadership teams to manage. No guidelines or procedure provided by the business. Department managers create and develop SOP for their departments, no actual business training documents available or training and development plan. Department manager and team speaking up on urgent matters to support the team, HR won't even attend the meeting and support the manager. Business makes record sales 3 years in a row (2019-2022), no reward for both retail and operations. People are unhappy and moving on.

1.0
Aug 22, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

People work in silos and do not collaborate or think outside of their department. You get a huge 1 day WFH a week MAX! /s Lots of people are leaving so that might open up career opportunities.

Cons

I know at least 10 people who have resigned already as a result of the CEO's decision to go to 1 day WFH max a week, and many more who intend to as soon as they find another job. One head of department is resigning too. Avoid. I suspect things are going to be toxic and the few people left will be overworked and underappreciated. More resignations to come.

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