Future reviews

3.2

46% would recommend to a friend

(712 total reviews)

Kevin Li Ying

65% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

Future has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 712 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Future employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Mídia e comunicação industry (3.7 stars).

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712 reviews
1.0
Oct 31, 2017

Doesn't care about content

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Standard corporate rewards package Day off on birthday Ground level staff are nice

Cons

Staff overworked Underpays staff Large scale frequent redundancies No editorial independence - constant interference and pressure from sales Frequently buys profitable companies and hollows them out Faux open office culture actually rife with politics

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Future Response
8y
Thanks for taking the time to provide feedback. Within our newly created People & Culture department, we are implementing a number of processes such as exit interviews and employee feedback interviews to understand how employees are feeling and what we can do to make any required improvements, we continue to act on this feedback. Growing the business via acquisition is one of our objectives and we consider it to be a really important part of our strategy. Unfortunately this occasionally results in duplications in roles and it has been necessary to amend the organisational structure as a result. We strive to be open and honest about these changes and try to keep impact to a minimum. We wish you all the best for your future endeavours.
1.0
Sep 25, 2017

Has gone rapidly downhill over time

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Central Bath offices Casual dress code Some really talented, friendly and genuine people work there

Cons

Constant rounds of redundancies Company seems obsessed with replacing experienced staff with graduates Nigh on impossible to get promoted unless you work in sales or are in the "higher management clique". Terrible salaries in most departments, huge discrepancies in salary within teams leading to low morale and resentment. Most departments are understaffed leading to high stress and burnout. Most managers are there for the money but don't actually want to manage people - poor performance often goes unchallenged and becomes a burden to the remaining team members.

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Future Response
8y
Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts regarding your time at Future. We are very fortunate to have an extremely talented and impassioned workforce in such a central location. As is well known, Future has been on a journey of transformation over the last few years, which has required us to make difficult decisions and reshape our organisation. We have come a long way on this journey and now look forward to growing and evolving the business. With said growth comes more exciting opportunities, which we actively share internally on a weekly basis. We also offer a generous employee scheme to encourage employees to share these opportunities within their personal networks. At Future we also offer industry leading employee benefits which we are extremely proud of. Thanks again for your comments, we wish you the very best.
1.0
Sep 15, 2023

Terrible

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

The people are lovely and the offices are very nice

Cons

Lack of communication between teams or even within teams Poor salary No career progression Management did not care about staff so when people left the team new staff weren’t hired, instead their work was distributed amongst those who remained Month end takes 3 weeks to complete so leaves no time to improve processes so everything is a mess When new brands are acquired (which is often), their finance processes are not integrated or communicated properly down the chain so things get lost easily

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Future Response
2y
Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review, we really appreciate your feedback. We are glad you enjoyed working with your colleagues at Future. We also appreciate the honest feedback regarding opportunities for personal growth and some of the processes here at Future. Your review helps us to understand where there is need for improvement.
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