H&M reviews

- Stores are understaffed and over worked constantly. - Salaries for management positions inadequate to competitors - Managers doing the same jobs all paid at differant rates , this is supposed to be down to the persons level of experience and salary band in differant stores , however less experienced Department managers have been offered higher salaries to not leave the company , while experienced DMs who want to stay and grow are struggling to get a €1000 increase in other stores. -Managers expected to manage the store while doing the work of a sales advisor to make up for lack hours available to use. -Incentive scheme is pretty much impossible to achieve , No Christmas bonus for staff or management Is extremely demotivating over the busy Xmas period. - Overtime is expected of management but unpaid. ( always over the extra 5 hours required of you during busy periods in your contract), no work life balance encouraged here. - Store working conditions are unhealthy and unsafe, this has been highlighted in the GES survey numerous years and still teams are working in unhealthy temperatures in a lot of stores. Constant issues with air con that have yet to be solved by the Area team. - Bully tactics used by certain area team members on a regular basis to insight fear into the store management teams disguised as feedback .I experienced being screamed at / foul language has been used on a number of occasions with area team members, this is not feedback , this is a scare tactic and it does not motivate anyone and we do not get paid enough to have to listen to this. - Communication of information from the area team to the store teams are often unclear and lead to confusion. Area team are very rarely all on the same page and don’t seem to communicate very well with each other. - HR seems to not care about why talented people are leaving at an alarming rate.

Area team are incompetent , they give no support to the management team in stores during stressful periods , while continuously cutting hours so the staff are put under an extreme amount of pressure to get tasks done on time . When they visit the store they don’t help out they just give negative feedback to the management team in an intimidating way , they don’t take into account staff levels and sickness . A lot of favouritism within the company, it’s not how good you are at your job that counts it’s about how much you get on with the area team and make them laugh that secures promotions. The salary for the amount of work expected is laughable and again down to favouritism . Certain people get higher salaries than others even if they have less experience . Managements overtime is not paid for or given in lieu . In some stores 10-12 hour days are the norm. There is no work life balance.