Pros
Health Insurance, PTO, and Discount. The benefits package it pretty solid, especially if you have a pre-existing condition or a family with medical needs. In fact, for the people still in IKEA, this is one of the major reasons they can't leave.
Cons
You have to actually work there... to get the benefits... and I'm not sure that's worth it anymore. Full disclosure time. I worked for IKEA for 14 years. I was in Sales, Com &In, and Logs. When I started in 2014, I thought I would retire with IKEA. I made life long friends and worked for a company that I genuinely felt good about. Fast forward to 2017 and Organizing for Growth. This is what the company is calling their attempt to restructure a brick and mortar business model to a multichannel platform. If you're here and reading reviews, then you've heard all this before. I'm just here to lend my voice to the growing clammer of disappointed ex employees. Most of us left left for very similar reasons, and all the benefits in the world wouldn't make me want to go back. I hope they work their way out of this. I really do. Especially for the friends that are still trapped by circumstance and can't leave, but beware. It could take years for them to work their way out of this. There's plenty of crappy retail jobs out there... that won't crush your soul. Grab one of them instead.
