Leadership or dictatorship? Sage's great culture a thing of the past. - Project Manager Sage Employee Review

2.0
Nov 1, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

- Good work/life balance - Some brilliant hard working colleagues

Cons

After Covid, Sage demonstrated the art of the possible, where work was a job not a place. I used to be a valued colleague now I'm just a number. A high performance culture "strategy" underpinned with what? Average leadership training, hiring freezes, redundancies and poor pay - translating to a work hard for less reward culture. Let's top off an already low morale with a 3 mandate back to office, that will be managed through formal process... where is the trust in your colleagues and leadership to get the job done! STOP investing money into offices that you perceive to be market leading... they're not. Sage's offices are buildings with desks... news flash so is my house! Do we have a creche for working parents? Or do you provide free meals for employees in offices like Google do? If you're return to office mandate was underpinned with actions that supported working parents, or colleagues who were struggling with the cost of living … then maybe we'd all be running back! Alas Sage's ELT proves once again that they are so wildly out of touch with the reality of working peoples lives. We used to have an amazing inclusive culture but let's be honest, those days are long gone!

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Sage Response
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Thank you for taking the time to leave your feedback. Although it might not fully resonate with you at the moment, please be assured that our culture is still supportive, empowering and people-focused. As we strengthen it, we hope this will shine more clearly in your experiences. Hybrid working is core to strengthening our human-centric culture, in which the well-being of our colleagues is at the centre. Therefore, we've committed ourselves to supporting colleagues with unique circumstances so that they can adhere to the updated working policy. We appreciate that, like any company, there's a lot of room for us to improve, so your concerns have been noted to ensure we can continue doing so correctly.

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