Not a good place - Anonymous employee SPH Magazines Employee Review

1.0
Jan 29, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

None to be honest. There is a clinic in the office building and a canteen with two stalls. Shuttle bus service

Cons

Long working hours, bad working conditions. Office is so dirty that people often fall sick. Management and hr are living in their own world. always telling unhappy employees that there is a long queue of people waiting to join this company. That may be true ten twenty years back. But now? Please wake up your idea. The company wants to move into the digital arena but is much slower than some of its competitors in the market and do not have adequate resources to do so. Bosses here don't even know how to open an email attachment, but shoot down ideas from younger employees who are actually the ones using social media. Their way of wooing the younger crowd is to spam social media and use clickbait to get clicks - if this is how a respected (at least in the past) media company wants to run the business, then I think the end is nigh. Hr is vile. In all my years of experience, I've never seen a hr team so unpopular among employees. Doesn't care about how workers are faring. Severely lacking in welfare. People are expected to juggle the workloads of two or three people because hr can't find anyone to replace the people who has left. Where is this long queue of people they speak of? Is it imaginary?

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3.0
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Pros

A comfortable place to work at with all the necessary perks and occasional opportunities for promotions — so comfortable in fact it's less a workplace than a retirement village.

Cons

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Pros

Great colleagues, fulfilling work, good career opportunities if you know how to hustle (that's not saying much tho)

Cons

Poor career opportunities if you're unwilling to play the game, long hours, poor salary and benefits, poor salary increments, poor management decisions. Upper management is slow on the uptake to trends, dont know their products as well and don't know what to do with digital. Adverse to risk and only willing to push for short-term profit results. Unwilling to take creative risks even though there isn't much to lose already anyway.

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