Overworked and underpaid - Anonymous employee IKEA Employee Review

2.0
Sep 14, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Can sometimes be fun especially before a store opens and everyone works together building the showrooms. You do get an employee discount.

Cons

After the initial hoo ha of a store opening they cut hours to bare bones. People hire on as full time and within 3 months are part time, working 5 hours one day, then 4 hours two days later, it makes no sense. The pay is terrible, absolutely awful and this is an extremely wealthy company.

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Pros

Side rights Putting human factor first Company Vision and Misson

Cons

Hard to position changes Managers tend to stay in same position years and years so if they are not nice you have to work w them

3.0
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Pros

Good work environment Pay is good Job keeps you busy

Cons

Lack of communication with leadership and coworkers. Leadership seems to have favorites Schedule takes too long to make Seems that there's people who would like the be full time or part time that are temporary right now aren't getting the positions. Feels like nepotism but maybe I'm wrong. Getting responses like you didn't get the job because you didn't answer your interview questions right just seems unnecessary The amount of drama happening is getting out of hand and leadership doesn't seem to care

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