Regis Corporation Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Regis Corporation part-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Clientele varies, always different each day. You gain experience with different type of hair texture. Great place to start when your fresh out of beauty school. All products are provided, just bring your shears. DVD education.

Cons – Low pay rate, working weekends is a must, sales numbers before artistry, No floor mats allowed in some locations which kill your feet & back.

Advice to Senior Management – Better pay should be considered, especially to the stylists who bring in $300+ a day for the company.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Regis Corporation full-time for more than a year

Pros – Leader in the retail salon industry that's bent on transforming itself. Cultural turnaround and a new CEO and mgmt team who are prioritizing the work to be done and making the hard choices and putting things in place that a $2B-plus company should have.

Cons – Prior mgmt ran their own show so poorly that outside investors ousted many of them. The silver lining...a new mgmt team who 'gets it'. Um, maybe benefits.

Advice to Senior Management – We didn't get in poor shape in a year...it'll take time to undo some practices and transform...keep involving the field and stick to your plan! Oh, and as we transform don't forget to revisit benefits!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Regis Corporation full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – I love my craft, most guests are wonderful people, and my staff is exemplary.

Cons – No one at the top looks down to the bottom, to the people ensuring that your bonuses and stock options stay up. The stylists are constantly being shown a target to strive for in the hopes of advancement or wage increases, but as soon as the target becomes achievable, they target is moved or revised.
Pay days are inconsistent.
Stylists are told that they are appreciated but shown that they are not.
Managers keep getting more work thrown at them without consideration to ability or wage increase.
When a minimum wage increase was mandated federally, the stylists who worked for years suddenly found themselves making the same as a newly hired, often inexperienced, stylist. No raise for them, regardless of new regulations bringing min wage up to their wage. This even meant managers in some places make the same as the staff they oversee.
Lack of advancement opportunities.
Lack of product training, practical training is limited to DVDs (no one ever has time to watch them and they lose productivity if they are off the floor)
Mainly, they see stylists and staff as replaceable and disposable.
They spend a fortune on marketing and coupon wars, but refuse to believe that if they lose all the decent staff, they lose the clients too.
If the stylists are stressed, depressed and under appreciated, the guests lose.
If they don't start at the bottom, there won't be a top left.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay the stylists what they're worth! It's the best way to ensure success for the guests and builds loyalty for both stylists and guests. Everyone works harder, smarter and better when the rewards are comparable to effort.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Regis Corporation full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – There is nothig good to say about this company

Cons – This company is so jacked up it's not funny. No one in the front office has a clue. You get paid nothing for all the work you have to do. The "higher ups" do not give a darn about the real workers, the stylists, becuase they pay nothing and give nothing back in return, but want you to work hard. The district management, regiona management, and local management are not on the same page. They all say something different when it comes to protocol and what is expected of the stylists.

Advice to Senior Management – Try working for a week, heck, a day in one of your salons and not the best ones either to see the real deal. Learn what it feels like to be behind the chair and not in your cozy offices getting the millions in stock options.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Regis Corporation full-time

Pros – When they hire you, they promise the world in company benefits, wage potential, and opportunities...

Cons – It takes a little time in working for this company, while you’re being underpaid in wages deserved, and before you get past all the loopholes, catch-22's, and prefabricated answers to known common employee complaints; for one to finally figure out the real deal in working with this company. Within two months, a hairstylist will see that she is being under-valued, under-compensated, and unlikely to expect much from the company on their original hiring offers and benefits that are full of ambiguity. Weekly schedules are given on Sunday, to begin the following day on Monday, without any advance notice for one to be able to make weekly plans to live by. Weekly schedules and hours are adjusted individually to prevent employee commission rates from being reached within the bi-weekly period and to preserve the minimum wage bracket per employee.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Regis Corporation full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Fast Pace
Great exposure with working with many departments on a daily basis
Flexibility

Cons – Salary
No Bonus Program
No Growth
No Career Development

Advice to Senior Management – Invest in your coordinators

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Regis Corporation full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Its a larger corporation that has benefits and employee discounts.Clientle is all walk-ins

Cons – PAY!!! and upper management is not on same page as others.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Regis Corporation full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – nothing that is a pro about it

Cons – everything about it is a con

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Regis Corporation full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Management is headed in the right direction
Opportunity to be part of something good
Great people throughout the company

Cons – Sales need to improve before big changes in compensation and benefits can be made
Health benefits could be much better

Advice to Senior Management – Reward the people working hard to turn the company around.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Regis Corporation full-time for more than a year

Pros – Free lunch!
Amazing family-like atmosphere!
Great bosses!
Small company atmosphere in a huge company!
Most of the leadership up to and including the CEO seem to genuinely care about the employees!

Cons – Yearly hiring freezes.
Pay is not competitive in almost any industry.
Lots of grand ideas that never seem to pan out.
Dress code doesn't match the atmosphere at the home office.

Advice to Senior Management – Attract top talent with competitive salaries. Follow through with plans. Be cutting edge, and stop trying to catch up with 2007.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company