Future reviews

Most upper management are robotic, cowardly, ignorant and do not listen to staff who have far more experience in the actual day to day running of the business. I was told repeatedly in 121 meetings that if my sales figures did not improve I would likely be sacked (despite a challenging period for everyone). Fear is imposed from upper-management which results in middle management micro-managing and un-trusting staff. Forced to return to the office on rigid days even when it wasn't necessary. No culture, no personality and poor relationship with ad agencies.

1) Salary Don't bother going above and beyond or raising your hand to do more projects, you will NOT - and I repeat, will NOT - get paid for it. There's no such thing as a raise here (HR will try to tell you that each year a 2% raise is given.. that's a standard of living increase, NOT a performance based raise.) One year the company handed out these Future-branded decks of cards that had advice on them (e.g. how to talk to your manager, how to give criticism). There was a card in the deck about promotions and how to praise employees: nowhere on that card did it mention pay raises. All it said was "we believe showing our employees our appreciation for their hard work doesn't have to just be through pay, it can be offering an employee to work on a fun new project!" How is a new project going to help me pay my bills? Ironically, the amount of money Future paid to have these customized decks of cards created could have probably been put toward a raise for some team members. IT MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE. Why would anyone want to do more work for no performance based raise? Future is exactly the company that says "we have beer in house! we have ping pong tables!" in response to someone asking for more money. BEER AND PING PONG TABLES WILL NOT PAY THE BILLS. 2) Leadership/Management Their only business strategy is to keep acquiring companies. No joke, it happens at least once a month. With all that cash they have available to do it, and how often they do it, it should make you wonder why it's so impossible to get a raise and to hire people what they're worth. They have the money to do it -- they just don't CARE. Majority of the leadership team here just uses buzz words to make it sound like they know what they're talking about and that they have something important to say. If you hear "firing on all cylinders!" or similar office jargon, heads up: this person doesn't have one unique thought to share. People are dropping like flies here. One after another, everyone leaves; people see it and question it, yet management does not acknowledge it and doesn't do a thing to rectify it. Warm bodies, that's all we (employees) are. 3) Job function The job you were hired for will most likely change in a few months, and they will not allow you any input or ask your opinion. Then they get surprised when people quit, how weird! Every few months they'll do a restructure and say "this new verticalization we're doing is really going to streamline the business!" and then you (employees) have to deal with the repercussions (e.g. your job you were hired to do no longer being your day to day job). But don't worry, in a few more months, they'll change everything again, and the same thing will happen. You'll also have a new manager every few months because they truly cannot make up their minds about how things should be run. Or, they genuinely just have no idea how to run things and make it up as they go along. I'm betting on the latter. Also, they tried to schedule an in-person two day conference this month in DC (when majority of staff is in New York). In the middle of a pandemic. Right when flu season begins. I'm laughing as I type this because it's unbelievable and so irresponsible.