IKEA Reviews

Pros

it's a very good company & fair withe their employees

Cons

it's depend on hard working ..timing ... ability

Advice to Senior Management

none

Pros

Your coworkers are amazing
Full benefits even for part time employees
Company really educates you about the company and the culture
After half a year, you can start make a plan of where you hope to be in the company down the road

Cons

Some of the worst customers I've dealt with have been here

Pros

IKEA develop honest down-to-earth people not just on work but their life, the value and culture matches with mine most.

Cons

Work load is too high that cannot balance with life sometimes.

Pros

Able to get health insurance, even working 12 hours a week, but much cheaper if you work at least 20 hours a week. Fun coworker events.

Cons

Lots of weekends. Horrible HR department, although they're slowly weeding out the bad ones. Instead of getting rid of incompetent management, they just "demote" them at the same rate of pay. Daytime coworkers get a lot better treatment and perks (food in the staff cafe, committee meetings and trainings schedule mostly during the daytime).

Pros

IKEA has a decent benefits package which includes part time workers.

Cons

Working evenings and weekends. Salary could be more competitive.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide more critical feedback to employees to help them improve.

Pros

Everyone from the floor staff to the managers are treated as equals and they are all generally friendly and easy to talk to.

Cons

Lack of communication at times.

Advice to Senior Management

A more personal approach would benefit.

Pros

Great food plan for employee, lounge, relaxation room, shower

Cons

work you like a dog....I hurt my back twice pushing pallet jackets and lifting boxes by myself.

Pros

When we were a franchise, all of the co-workers felt a sense of teamwork, respect, and family. We all worked together to get the job done. Also, they have an "open-door policy" in which you can go directly to a manager (even the store manager) to express your concerns. I actually enjoyed going to work just about every single day.

Cons

New corporate policies made it very difficult to do our jobs efficiently; as a direct result, morale has been very low for the past couple of years. The feeling of respect, family, and teamwork has died since corporate doesn't want people from different departments to help other departments during busy times, as we did in the past. Also, the policies made it more "customer unfriendly". A lot of times, the co-worker is painted as the "bad guy", even when the customer yells at or threatens the co-worker. In the case of this particular store, despite working very hard to advance, I was always passed up. Unless you are part of the "Old Girls Network", you can pretty much forget about moving up! There was too much favoritism.

Advice to Senior Management

These policies are too impratical. It may look fine on paper but, in actuality, IT DOES NOT WORK! All it is doing is driving down morale for your employees and angering the customers. I can see why they are taking their business elsewhere!

Pros

Excellent benefits package
Generous paid time off
Supportive management
More emphasis on ability and experience than formal education
Plenty of opportunity for US and global growth
Swedes value the workers

Cons

Your coworkers will be difficult much of the time--it's retail, and retail attracts first-time workers, indifferent college students, and those bitter retail veterans who've never been promoted because they lack self-awareness, intelligence, or the "big picture" view to understand the competencies needed to be a leader. Managements is, as everywhere, hit and miss, but generally the company has high expectations for managers to act fairly and ethically. The best people you work with are those who are sticking around for promotion opportunities or for the good benefits. Working nights and weekends and holidays is a part of retail, but it's exhausting.

Advice to Senior Management

Leadership is fine, but realize that not everyone wants to make IKEA a lifelong home. I have coworkers who have no interest in working here beyond the end of the semester, but the manager still has to have all these long development plans with them. Why not focus primarily on the people who want the development?

Pros

Good benifets, free uniforms, great beak area for employees, $3 meals for employees.

Cons

Low pay for the amount of hard work being done.

Advice to Senior Management

None