IKEA Reviews

Cons

It took a little longer then what I was told to here back so I was starting to wonder

Cons

Customers could be a challenge to resolve conflicts with at times.

Cons

-IKEA restructured, doing away with all the HR investments they had for their co-workers when I started in 2012.
-No more annual performance evaluations, which used to end with a small annual raise. There also used to be an annual bonus program that ended around 2016.
-IKEA hides behind a smoke and mirrors display of innovation, inclusivity, and diplomacy. However, the US stores have fallen short to the European stores in terms of technology, overall work/life balance, and co-worker engagement.
-Right before I left, IKEA changed to a more Americanized business operation, taking away the salaries of upper management and switching them to lower, hourly wages. They created more positions within the store that they do not have the resources to hire for and fill. Current staff is spread thin across many different areas and have not received compensation increases.

Cons

There are a lot of changes coming. Benefits are changing, store structure is changing and communication is BAD, both within the store and between the corporate office and the stores.

Cons

High school type of atmosphere where people made clicks. Management favored individuals who kissed butt over those who worked hard and actually showed up on time.
Sometimes the benefits and pay don't feel like they covered how stressful the environment was. Often understaffed during weekends and managers tend to hide in their office during busy business hours. Mangers helping in the trenches boosts morale, when they disappear during busy hours and are difficult to reach when problems arise leads to an over stressed employee. Sometimes managers broke rules for customers so they wouldn't have to deal with the customer hence making you look like an butt even though you were following store procedures. Back up your workers so they don't feel undermined and the feeling of resentment doesn't develop between management and employee.
People who kissed butt got preferential treatment over those others who worked hard and didn't kiss butt. Asking for time off needs to be done way ahead of time and most managers aren't flexible if something unexpected comes up. Instead of having policies apply to all workers, sometimes it was whatever the manager wanted and differentiated amongst departments, example in my department you weren't allowed to switch shifts because it occured often yet a different department was able to accommodate schedule changes, how exactly is it fair that some individuals abuse the system and others also take the blame when they hardly change shifts. You don't punish the whole for the actions of the few. You hold those that abuse the system accountable for and correct their behavior, don't penalize everyone. Life happens and every once in a while people need proper accommodation without fearing that their employment may be in jeopardy. Doesn't seem fair. Instead they should limit amount of shift changed to accommodate emergencies. Coworkers don't properly know how to approach each other when problems arise, instead of saying something is uncomfortable or a topic is off-limits they go to hr and escalate it quickly when it can easily be handled without having to go up in command sometimes.
Policy tends to be up to how HR or managers interpret it, not uniform throughout stores. Example, conflict of interest, not allowing family to hold a position above another family member yet this policy wasn't enforced when siblings where given a position of management above each other yet in my case I was unable to work in same department with a family member where I held no power above said family member.

Cons

Not enough hours, hard to move up within

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Pays not that great and promotions are hard to come by.

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Pay is no longer competitive, PTO has been reduced, new organization no longer cares for coworkers, hours have been cut, higher work load for less pay, no growth opportunities unless already in a like position, horrible management, OUTRAGEOUS turnover!

Cons

Poor communication from management. After the changes in last October the stores gone to shiit. 4G was supposed to help coworkers but instead has made the problems worse. So much has changed since I started there. Idk what the point of a open door policy is, when the managers don't apparently have the time to listen. Even though they spend most of their shift in the admin office sitting on their butts on the computer, while all the work fall onto the coworkers. Now merchandising gets forced to help out every other department every day but does merchandising ever get help? No we just get to pick up the slack from every other department. Prep and flow is doing the worst. They are weeks behind in the trucks. And so customers come into the store, thinking we have items in stock because they checked online. And then they get mad at us because its nowhere to be found because prep and flow cant get their shiit together. Also active sellers get paid way to much money to just stand around and answer questions, especially when merchandising has to answer most of the customer questions, because no active sellers are anywhere to be found. Funny that they get paid $17 an hour but merchandising gets $14 and does all the work. Luckily I was in prep and flow first and I got to keep my pay when I transferred.

Cons

$12.00 an hour while working 35+ hours is very difficult to live off of.
We always seem to be under staffed, which makes it extremely difficult to problem solve and provide service to customers when It's busy.
 from the perspective of someone who's only been there for 3 months, I feel like we are so overwhelmed with trying to get through the day that there is no time to actually improve systems in the store or the way we work.