Future is intent on reducing teams to breaking point whereby some critical employees are laid off and their responsibilities passed onto others who have no understanding or training of those responsibilities. And I don't mean minor roles, these are roles which functioned flawlessly and brought financial benefits, which can no longer be properly handled (or done at all) after the layoffs.
Culling staff is a yearly event, starting in November. It's become the normality for a number of years. I've seen colleagues go into consultation days before Christmas for the past two years.
To save money Future aims looks to fill jobs with graduates where possible. The cost cutting exercise throughout the business is draining the business of experienced employees. The company has a mission to cut costs to become profitable, it makes less money each year so the answer is keep squeezing the overheads regardless of consequences. It's effectively speeding up it's own decline as it just gets worse at delivering.
There's absolutely no career development, training, or support from managers. As an employee of Future you either sink or swim. Ask a manager for help/advice on an assigned task from them and you often get nothing back, they simply don't fundamentally manage; they may not have the answer so avoid any response. I've experienced this face-to-face with my manager many times, and my emails ignored.
I could go on for hours here, but I think I've made my point. I'm not a bitter ex-employee I'm glad to be made redundant and receive compensation. I was offered an opportunity to apply for another role but refused, it's just not worth spending so much of my working life swimming in these toxic conditions, 15+ years is quite enough. I feel sad for my friends at Future who remain in the circumstances I've escaped.
If you plan to work for Future, know the above. You'll find this out for yourself once you've passed the honeymoon period of the shiny new job.
