Pros

1. Quick Promotions
2. Good Money(I think, I don't know about others retailers)
3. 5% staff discounts on purchases in about 15 different retail that are owned by woolworths ltd..

Cons

work like a dog.
No holidays during easter ,Christmas, Newyear time.
Must apply holiday one year prior.
higher budget, less labour budget so you end up working minimum 50+ hours every week.

Advice to Senior Management

stop squeezing us till we dried.

Pros

Fantastic career opportunities. Challenging work with great people. Once you work here, you can move around to different parts of the business, different divisions and different locations.

Cons

Flexibility to take leave at busy times of the year for retail eg Christmas and Easter, but the benefits outway the downsides

Advice to Senior Management

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Pros

The internal relationships formed between staff. Most stores have a close-knit community of staff, who generally help each other out and form strong personal and professional relationships. Family members work together, people meet, go out, break up, get married, have children - often times with someone they've met whilst working at Woolworths. In this respect, there is a strong sense of community.

Cons

Staff, particularly those on salary, are expected to work far too many hours. Most Department and Store Managers regularly work 12+ hour days. This is not just by choice; there is tremendous pressure on salaried staff to work longer hours to keep wage costs tight. The company, and senior managers actively discourage work/life balance. For all store staff, this simply does not exist.

Advice to Senior Management

Senior Management - those above an Area, or Regional Manager level, are taking a short sighted view to try and continually raise the return for share holders. By continually cutting wage budgets, extreme pressure is placed on all Store staff. Woolworths has dire problems with succession planning, recruitment and long-term retention because of this wage budget pressure. If salaried staff had higher wage budgets to work with, all Department Managers would be able to work a more reasonable amount of hours per week. This would directly translate to massive saving costs in retention, particularly those associated with training new staff members. Don't just focus on the direct costs involved with hiring, the indirect costs prove far more costly in the end.

Pros

The best reason to work for Woolworths is really a double edge sword. It really depends on who is you boss and what part of the business you are in. I am in IT and I enjoy the opportunity that I have been given to work with some of the bleeding edge technology in the company. It also helps that my direct management at the moment are fairly decent.

Cons

I have in the past had real bastards of line managers, one in particular issued me with a warning because I had come into work at 8am instead of my normal 7am. I was not required to start work until 9am. A lot of line managers in Woolworths have the personality of a door knob.

Advice to Senior Management

Take a look at how some of the line managers are treating their staff.