Thomson Reuters reviews

Management have no direction, it changed quicker than the wind and we were always left to pick up the pieces. Senior Management is essentially a bunch of cowboys, who started working for the company when it was still FCBI straight out of uni, and have had no real management or business training. The lack of professionalism is unimaginable for anyone who has worked elsewhere. All company risk is put on the employer, as the vast majority of our pay was based on event commission. The events you were given were strongly based on favouritism, and often sexism, whereby some people continuously were receiving huge commissions (the main reason why they have stayed!) and others get nothing. The culture is toxic and full of bullies. You are expected to work well beyond contract hours, as it is the only way to attempt to make any commission. Next to no progression, people had to almost beg for any sort of promotion, and when they finally got the role, they were only offered £2-5K more despite a doubling in responsibility. The last 2 pay rises their initial offer was a 2% increase which was around £800 a year (given the low salaries to begin with).

Short sighted strategy. The Answer Company doesn't know if it's a software or content organisation and doesn't seem to have the answers to its own identity challenges and questions. A slow organisation where decisions are taken at the very top. Outsourcing and restructuring have driven and forced talent to leave. The constant cycle of reorganisation affects employee morale despite a company-wide attempt to instil a sense of belonging by implementing various employee workshops including some odd sort of in office meditation. Excruciating.