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Updated Jun 7, 2023
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Top Review Highlights by Sentiment
- "Hays offers excellent training for their staff and supports their employees through solid career progression." (in 569 reviews)
- "I worked with really great people over a number of years with Hays and made some fabulous friends." (in 224 reviews)
- "Long hours and often expected to stay behind which can lead to burn out very quickly." (in 324 reviews)
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- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Running for joy bar none cookies
Cons
Mental low target wonder women
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Toxic Work Environment
Jun 7, 2023 - Recruitment Coordinator in Tampa, FLRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Remote work available. Assets provided to contractors.
Cons
Regular sexual harassment by management, reports of managers making workers cry in meetings, management encouraged skipping meals during team meetings, lack of proper training and skill development, inconsistent and unclear policy/practices, refusal by HR to investigate two reports of retaliation and workplace harassment. The company also attempted to increase the hourly work expectation for salaried workers with no increase in pay. Refused to take action when discriminatory benefits packages were pointed out. Regular refusal by HR/Benefits/Payroll to communicate clearly and effectively. Caught the company underpaying me after learning my coworkers' salaries and was subsequently illegally told that we were not allowed to discuss pay with one another. Frequent surveillance and reporting of workers to management. When workers inquired about the role a new team would fulfill and their fears of being laid off, they were told not to worry, provided no information that answered their questions, and then were laid off months later with no notice or warning.
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 8 years★★★★★
Great place to kill entrepreneurship
Apr 3, 2023 - Assistant Vice PresidentRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Great Branding Decent Commission plan Well respected global branding and marketing Training for new people
Cons
Micro Management is how the organization runs - typical "trust no one we hire" None of the leaders are true sales people - of your going into sales your are dead here 90% of clients for Hays will never get approved to do business with AR team are like debt collectors - will harass clients to pay like they owe child support...hence why most clients are not repeat customers
Continue reading - Former Employee★★★★★
Underpaid, Not Valued, Terrible Leadership
Apr 20, 2023 - Account ManagerRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
-Work from home twice a week
Cons
-This position is grossly underpaid. -Sr. "leaders" would talk about other employees in one on ones with other employees. So extremely unprofessional -Absolutely no culture. No investment in the office space, employee well-being or culture overall. -You really are just a number. Unless you are greedy and aggressive you will be pushed out -Training is just sitting on the computer for a week going through presentations. - No transparency. Everything contradicted each other so no matter what you are never good enough
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Not a place for experienced people
Jan 10, 2023 - Business DirectorRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Hays has a great reputation overseas, APAC, and EMA. Great Training, PR and Marketing. Work life balance is great.
Cons
All the Pro's are masked by the following: The US Hays organization in ran by a group of guys who adore themselves. After being here for 3 years and seeing about 50% of people leave in 6-12 months along with most of the corp HR Staff. This is something that is glaring culture issues, many of the leaders/supervisors are from the UK. It is typical shady staffing, hire some bright people, get their accounts and fire them. I see this routinely here. Ive seen countless less experienced people get ruined. The best is for 3 years I still cannot get access to the office, have to wait until someone comes in to let me in, we have not have office copier for 1 year so everyone needs to print at home. The Sr VP says "dont let the little things stop you" that is most foolish comment......it is the little things that ruin your experience at a company.
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- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Great entry level recruiting position
Cons
Work life balance, too much emphasis on in office
- Former Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Great Pay. At times toxic male environment. see saw back and forth on policy and procedures
Apr 14, 2023 - Recruitment Business Partner in Tampa, FLRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
WFH, salary and benefitswere great
Cons
management, toxic male environment, expectation to work till you drop. At times too much work with little help and times where there was no work at all.
- Former Employee★★★★★
Pros
Great camaraderie and dedication among team
Cons
Unrealistic and unhealthy work-life balance that puts you at risk for burnout
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Love that we continue to evolve our brand, structure and services to better meet the needs of our clients, candidates and internal employees. Strives to tap into the potential of it's employees to promote it's vision and mission of working for your (client and candidates) tomorrow.
Cons
Change is constant and sometimes not communicated timely.
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Leadership is very supportive and willing to help you learn.
Cons
Not a lot of integration or communication with anyone in the company besides your team and the account managers you work with.
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Hays has an overall rating of 3.6 out of 5, based on over 5,957 reviews left anonymously by employees. 69% of employees would recommend working at Hays to a friend and 61% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has decreased by -1% over the last 12 months.
69% of Hays employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated Hays 3.4 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.6 for culture and values and 3.7 for career opportunities.
According to reviews on Glassdoor, employees commonly mention the pros of working at Hays to be culture, coworkers, career development and the cons to be benefits, management, compensation.
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