To enjoy working at GRI, you have to deal with a lot of nonsense. - werkgeversreview Anonieme werknemer bij GRI Institute

3,0
2 apr 2025
Anonieme werknemer
Aanbevelen
Goedkeuring directeur
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Working at GRI Club has its challenges, but it also offers valuable opportunities. The fast-paced environment helps you develop resilience and adaptability, and the international network provides great exposure to the real estate and investment sectors. If you’re proactive and willing to navigate some hurdles, you can gain meaningful industry connections and experience.

Minpunten

Working at GRI Club comes with serious challenges that potential employees should consider carefully. One of the biggest issues is the lack of proper management and support. Many employees feel overworked and undervalued due to unrealistic expectations, poor communication, and a leadership team that often seems disconnected from the reality of day-to-day operations. There’s little to no structured training, making it difficult for new hires to succeed, and the high turnover rate speaks for itself. Micromanagement, lack of clear processes, and a culture that prioritizes pressure over genuine development create a stressful work environment. Instead of fostering talent, management often fails to provide the necessary support, leading to burnout and frustration. If you’re considering working here, be prepared for a chaotic structure, long hours without appreciation, and a lack of career growth unless you’re willing to navigate these challenges largely on your own. Until significant improvements are made in leadership and employee support, GRI remains a difficult place to build a sustainable and rewarding career.

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Great people, the product is good, offices are great as its Wework in Paddington. Super international crowd which is quite nice.

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The company has seen so much change the past 1.5 years that there is no clarity into what's going on and the direction it's taking. As new rules are implemented, the old ones are not replaced, people who have been her for years and are used to their way of doing things don't follow new approach making it extremelly hard for newcomers to figure out what to do, and how to work, and the management says nothing. Expect some internal fights between colleagues who openly dislike each others (good thing it's only a very very few, people are nice otherwise). The company changes its mind quite often, it should be listed as a pros, because it should mean its expanding and moving forward, but its not. It's missing clarity, you hear one thing from someone and 4 other different things from 4 others different people. Sales people where once told they couldn't leave their desk during the day.....we work in a WeWork building....I'll let you do the math. Again working from home is not allowed. Don't expect flexibility

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This was a very interesting feedback. Honest feedback, this is not fake. Pls allow me to respond. Yes, we have launched an HR dept with a person fully dedicated to writing down our principles, Company Handbook, organising training, procedures, policies, etc. We invested in a software (Bamboo) that has helped us to improve internal communication. With offices in many cities, time zones and languages it was challenging. So you are right and I honestly think we are much better now (but still we are not perfect) Now, when I took over in Nov 2016 I was hired to change completely the GRI business model. With good results elsewhere I was told to bring the changes to London and I did it. That means the GRI is a 20 years old company but with a spirit of a startup. And like any startup you must be agile, change and adapt to survive. Solutions that we implemented in Mexico, Brazil, India, Colombia not necessarily would work in Europe. So we did change to respond and adapt. We launched a new CRM, new products, services… it was quite a journey (and it has been but now we are steady) I respect and understand this kind of environment with constant changes are not for everyone. Some can work for a startup, some prefer a more stable and traditional place. I apologise if during the interview process I was not clear about our "startup spirit". Based on what I read you meant well but ended up frustrated here. Very sorry to hear that. But we had to be fast and adapt. That is what brought us the stability and market growth we can see now. I would invite you to join us for a coffee to see how things are now. You are right, the people are super nice here, the small disagreements you mentioned are truly over and we are proud of our products as you said indeed. One side note: yes, we asked people to work from their desks. The reason was that we have a nice private office and our team of 36 people were working from different places/floors. With a need for us to build a team spirit, we decided to go "old fashion" and ask people to work at least during a good part of their day from inside of the office. That has actually helped a lot for people to connect, get closer and build friendships. Office environment got much better. Before they would see each other very little during the working day. Sorry to hear that it didn't feel right to you. Maybe we didn't communicate enough the reason why we asked the teams to do that? Apologies. We live and learn. Gustavo Favaron - CEO
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