ASDA reviews

Company is clearly struggling financially causing budget cuts in most areas of the business, particularly in transport. They’re laying people off and then spreading their work load across the drivers. They have brought in a few new managers from different stores who are making silly changes to the business seemingly just to make it look like they are doing something.

Where to begin. Hybrid working Slowly being phased out so we can work 'collaboratively'. But when most of your contacts work in multiple locations & around world, you're sat on Teams all day in a noisy office. Also from January we have to work in store for a day to get close to customers and store staff- but we have to choose from a small list of stores meaning some people are travelling 40 miles to work in a store to sit on a Teams call. Office Not fit for purpose. Always something broken, mainly the heating. It's either like working in Barbados or working in Canada. I've been there for over 6 years and it's never working. Chairs are broken and haven't been replaced since 2010. Toilets are foul. Not an accessible building. Strategy A joke. The past 12 months noone has known what the hell is going on. The U Turns this business does is mind blowing one minute you're competing with m&s on extra special, the next you're trying to compete with aldi and sell pasta for 30p. No CEO just an old man on the board ranting to the media instead of speaking to his staff. No leadership. No solid direction. Management Shambles. Whenever someone new comes in, the departments get an overhaul. People get more jobs added to their list with no pay or reward. Managent/leadership (director & above) are robots with no clue on how to do the job and most don't even know who works for them. Rarely do they say hello to their team. Expect large pieces of work to be done in a few hours not a few days, to then not be used in meetings, wasted resource. Managers and senior managers put up with a lot, shielding the assistants from the politics but get treated terribly Pay If you've stayed in asda, your pay will likely to be shocking. Move from supermarket to supermarket and you'll get more money. Pay is secretive and you could have two colleagues doing the same job with similar experience on £4k difference. A manager can be on the same money as the grade below. Pay review last year showed we weren't in line with the market but they can't do anything about it. Probably because it would cost millions to fix. Gender pay gap IS NOT monitored at head office. So the report makes asda look better than it is. Work life balance It's rare. Often called on weekends and evenings to fix things or asked questions. Having to work til 9pm because you got asked at 4pm to do work due 9am the next day. Most managers work on holiday, I have. Job security None. Redundancies happen YEARLY. With no consultation its illegal. Finding loopholes to fire people because their face doesn't fit. Latest round of redundancies saw 400+ go, some were on Maternity leave. Most fired through Teams. No job is secure. When someone new comes in, expect redundancies. All colleagues are conditioned to believe this is normal for a company - it is not. Now because of the redundancies, we're all doing the job of 3 people. No extra pay. Culture At the moment, awful. Everyone is miserable! Colleagues are what make you stay in this business, they're amazing. However it's not enough. Toxic atmosphere. People crying at desks and people on sick with stress and anxiety.