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
Aug 15, 2022

Factory with subpar pay

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

You get paid at least

Cons

Growth in the company means quitting

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Future Response
3y
Thanks for sharing your feedback with us. We're working to improve our processes to give more opportunities for development and progression within the company and your feedback and suggestions are a vital part of helping us do that. If you have any further suggestions you'd like to share please get in touch with us directly.
2.0
Jul 1, 2022

Strange company, very corporate

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Generally laid-back, strong UK focus, good benefits

Cons

Too business-like, poor equipment, disorganized

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Future Response
3y
Thanks so much for sharing your feedback, it's important to us. We're focused on listening to what our colleagues have to say and working to make Future a great place to work. We'd love to understand in what ways overall you felt we've been disorganized and 'too business-like', so please feel free to reach out to us to provide more feedback.
2.0
Apr 13, 2022

Not the time to join

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Editorial staff A few people still trying their best to nurture talent

Cons

CEO seemingly refuses to listen to editorial New management buzzword is apparently “gaslighting” Infrastructure can’t keep up with acquisitions, and is all UK based Keeps buying random (and often rival) companies while staff are denied raises but are pushed to deliver more and more Terrible morale, people cry after the Town Halls Forced office return “for the culture” which everyone hates Recently had a mass executive team exodus (not a good sign) leaving a huge knowledge gap at the top

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Future Response
4y
Agreed! Our editorial staff are incredibly talented and are the main reason 400m people pick up one of our magazines, or to go to one of our websites, each month. Our recently formed Audience, Content and Editorial group brings each area together to share best practice, listen and learn from each other. This was one of Zillah's own ideas, which is a great initiative. We'd love to highlight that our acquisitions are an opportunity for us to add our tech or expertise, rather than random. They also aren't limited to the UK, which makes life at Future so varied and exciting. We appreciate working in the office isn't 'for everyone', but we find (in a post-Covid world) our hybrid approach gives us the opportunity to collaborate and produce excellent work, surrounded by our awesome colleagues, whilst also giving us the flexibility to work from home 2 days per week. It's a win-win! As mentioned in a previous comment. we're going to use the results from our Engagement Survey to listen to what colleagues have to say, and implement real change where they see fit. We appreciate that our expansion as a business (through acquisitions or natural growth) can make career path structure a little fuzzy, but we're hard at work to change this and we think it will make a real difference for all colleagues in the future. Our overall split is 50% male, 50% female and half of our Executive Team are female, which we're really proud of. That split isn't as equal as we'd like in every level of the organisation, but we certainly don't expect female colleagues to be overlooked for recognition by males. We'll make sure to explore this to understand whether it is actually happening, so thank you for raising this with us. Please don't hesitate to get in touch with the Dan from our People & Culture team on Dan.Wolff@FutureNet.com, as we'd appreciate the opportunity to discuss some of the comments in more detail and help address the concerns you have.
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