Good vibe, good people - Skin & Massage Therapist Balance Me Employee Review

5.0
Aug 2, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

I have worked for Balance Me for over 7 years, so i'd seen them really grow. I work on freelance basis, doing skin scanning for balance me clients, helping with their launches and coming into their office and treating Balance me team with massages. It has always been a pleasure to come into their office on the monthly basis. The people are lovely and regardless of sometimes stressful days (like with any workplace), there is a presence of balance there. From my own experience, the owners are very attentive, always make time for me and the fact that they treat their team with monthly massages shows that they stand up to what their believe in - work life balance and creating a sense of wellbeing at work. I have been doing massage work in other offices across London and by far, Balance me is the friendliest, with good people and personality. They also spoil me with Balance Me products at the end of my day.

Cons

It may be a "con" for someone, but by the sound of it, it is not the place where you have nothing to do. I think multi-tasking and energy is the skill required for Balance Me.

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1.0
Feb 21, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

The people who I worked with who are at the same level as me have been very wonderful. I felt part of the team early on because of them.

Cons

The role I was hired for was not as advertised. They advertised a junior role but in reality the business needed (or wanted) an executive or director level role. Trying to manage the 12+ accounts on my own without any support or guidance, with a boss who spoke to me (in front of others) in an underhanded, dismissive, and derogatory way caused self doubt in my abilities, which caused stress and overwork, which was quickly leading towards burnout within just four months of starting. When a family member passed away early on when I joined, I was not offered any bereavement leave. When I tried to book holiday, I was told to change my dates despite no communication from my boss before hand that she was planning to take time off at the same time -- even though there is a joint calendar for everyone to put in their holiday/time off in. We are not told until the day of when upper management is unavailable either due to holiday or business trips. The goal posts keep changing without proper communication from upper management and we are all expected to just adapt and help out without consulting us on what we have scope to take on. There are hardly any if at all acknowledgement of achievements accomplished and whatever is completely is not given the positive feedback one might expect from getting it done, even if helpful and constructive critiques could be made. 10/10 would not recommend working here. Hearing early on that the company has a high turnover should have been the first red flag, but after coming out from working at somewhere else where I had been overworked and underappreciated I could not see the signs until it was too late. Additionally, the people doing my interviews did not know or understand the full scope of what the role would need, which leant itself to the false promise of achievable workload vs. the businesses expectations.

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4.0
Feb 15, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

lots of hands on experience and fast paced environment, company cares about the planet

Cons

not a huge room for professional growth

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