Wren Kitchens reviews

No work-life balance; if you take time off for your legal lunch, you are looked at with disapproval; if a client wants to come on your day off, you are expected to work on that day off; unrealistically high targets and KPIs; the main thing is to sign a contract and take the money, and everything else will be the designer's fault if anything happens; if you have a deal coming up and for some reason the manager is not sure that you can close it, he will give your clients to another more experienced designer and it doesn't matter how many hours you worked; any discrepancy in work and the blame falls on the designer, and is not shared between the teams; a very toxic environment in the team, although some people still managed to remain human and managed to help, but in general, gnawing each other's throats for the client is encouraged and much, much more.

-Turnover of staff at the local showroom is extremely high! Under 4 years nearly 60 people have come and gone due to poor treatment, mismanagement and lack of support from local showroom -Local showroom management is toxic, there’s a culture of favouritism, fear and micromanagement -Web leads are based off “performance” but in practice by the local showroom it’s based on who’s liked which is inconsistent and very demotivating. -Mandatory daily briefing sessions which work out to 1hr 45m which are never paid back in time off (despite contractual terms) and are often negative, aggressive, and include inappropriate language. -Management often swear and belittle staff creating a hostile work environment -Can’t speak for all HR advisors but again, local showroom HR advisor seem very aligned with management, having phone calls on his personal phone before the shift starts, makes it difficulty to raise issues safely and securely -You will also spend a lot of time at work, say goodbye to your weekends, your bank holidays and any holidays you plan to go on longer than 2 weeks.