Future reviews

3.2

44% would recommend to a friend

(712 total reviews)

Kevin Li Ying

60% approve of CEO

36% 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
Dec 19, 2018

Dumbfounded

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Great editorial and sales teams.

Cons

Unfortunately, these teams are being held back every day by utter incompetence from the rest of the company. HR, especially, are away with the fairies. Total obsession with absurd, sitcom-worthy, Americanised "team-building exercises" that offer absolutely no value to anyone whatsoever. The HR team can find the time to drag you away to the countryside for these exercises for a three-day break. Raise a real issue, however, like being completely unable to carry out your day-to-day tasks due to broken computers or a lack of phone access, and you'll be ignored entirely for weeks on end. Clever schemes like "unlimited holiday" sound fantastic but actually lead to employees taking fewer holidays than they are due. You'll get no support from other teams, either. No access to the server? IT will respond to your *urgent* message three weeks later saying "Is this still a problem?" The accounts team will simply refuse to help you, full stop.

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Future Response
7y
Thanks for taking the time to leave a review. We are working hard not only to be brilliant at the basics but constantly evolve our business and culture with a number of initiatives that we continue to receive great feedback on. We are passionate about investing in our induction programme which we launched just under a year ago, to ensure that all new staff get off to the best possible start in Future. We have also invested significantly in IT kit for our staff in 2018, with further upgrades planned throughout 2019.
3.0
Dec 19, 2018

Good Environment within teams

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

The teams you work with are amazing, there is a complete sense of camaraderie.

Cons

The pay is extremely underwhelming

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Future Response
7y
Thanks for taking the time to leave a review, we appreciate your feedback. We agree that we have some amazing teams across the business which allow us to achieve great things collectively. As you may know, we announced our intention to amend salaries with effect from January across the business during our recent townhall meetings. In the UK, we are proud to be a member of the living wage foundation.
5.0
Dec 6, 2018

Future

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Great company with good management and rewards scheme. The unlimited holiday is a great asset for everyone and is always nice to be able to take leave when needed.

Cons

Progression is slightly difficult as there is no real training scheme involved. It would be useful for new starters and grads if there was some scheme in place for them.

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Future Response
7y
Thanks for taking the time to leave a review, we appreciate your feedback. Future is a hugely diverse business with endless opportunities. Please feel free to make yourself known to the People & Culture Team or your ELT Member so we can work with you on your personal progression objectives. We are delighted to announce that we have appointed a Head of Learning & Development and we look forward to do doing some really exciting things from an L&D perspective across the business.
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