Regus Software Engineer reviews

Off the top of my head: - Terrible management at a senior level: -- No decision process and no direction, with knee jerk decisions being mandatory - many large projects thrown away after a couple of years -- No connection to the staff -- Treat staff as an expense and the customers as cash cows -- All comes down to the bottom line, mass redundancies across the company reducing the workforce to a small collection of demotivated staff who resent the company. -- No investment in anything. No training. Offices are falling to pieces and are not cleaned for years. No pay rises, not even with inflation. If your are quick, you can get decent kit, but only if you scavenge when someone leaves, which they frequently do. -- Cost cutting on everything, from plants in the office (yes, this really happened) to closing offices and reducing the headcount by over 40%... -- All of the upper management fester in their own arrogance, disconnected from the company around them, waiting to stab the next peer in the back to climb the greasy pole. All run by Regus' own Mr. Burns and he band of evil flying monkeys who gives no-one any power, but instead strangles every department of the ability to make its own decisions and to thrive under it's own steam. -- Staff morale is spoken about infrequently and never acted upon. Resulting in everyone being demotivated and almost in a state of depression. Most people have either left or would bite your hand off for another opportunity. -- The redundancies mentioned were handled terribly. People were tapped on the shoulder and when they came back they just cleared their desks without being allowed to say a word. That's it, then they were gone. A perfect example of how Regus values it's employees, both past and present. -- It just keeps getting worse and everyone is just expected to get on with it. The whole company feels like it is either being run down or "streamlined" to be sold - either way, it's been done very badly and I feel sorry for anyone who still works in this cesspit of a company.

Having worked here for just over four and half years (four and half years I'll never get back), I feel it's my duty to warn fellow IT professionals to avoid working for this company. If you're someone who wants a career progression, wants to get involved in cutting edge technology and wants to work for a company who appreciates technology rather than sees it as a burden or even just someone who has a good idea, then this is DEFINITELY NOT the place for you. Regus really undervalues it's staff not appreciating the amount of time and effort people put in to help this greedy monster generate the kind of revenue it has. Staff will come up with some great ideas but it will often be ignored because someone higher up believes they have the solution to save Regus after reading some article about some cloud solution which is going to be much easier and cheaper to develop. I think their heads are definitely in the cloud, some cuckoo cloud land. They also think that outsourcing is the way forward for everything. The current CIO is a fan of outsourcing (although he won't admit it). Communication is a foreign concept at Regus. In the last couple of years there have been about three or four sets of redundancies. Each time it's happened, we only find out about it on the day when we see people suddenly packing their stuff and saying goodbye. In the most recent set of redundancies, my line manager and his line manager were made redundant which meant I reported directly to the CIO. Was this communicated? No! In fact some people had to convince the CIO that maybe he should have a town hall and explain what is going on. Reluctantly, he did and in classic Regus management fashion he kept it short and pointless, to quote him "This is only going to take 3 minutes". The root cause of Regus's negative and demoralising atmosphere stems from the CEO who runs the company in a dictatorial fashion. He doesn't trust his staff and insists on knowing every detail of implementation, expenditure and who to blame when things go wrong. If this company is ever going to progress, get rid of him.