IKEA Reviews

Where do I begin? Very long hours, no support, expectation to give up any semblance of your own life, with a promise of progression that never comes. Even if you have proof of your hard work and accomplishments, it accounts for absolutely nothing. They claim that culturally they welcome different ideas - but not true, you conform or life becomes difficult for you. If you injure yourself on the job, they see you as a liability - if you were once seen as an up and coming talent, once you injure yourself or admit you can't cope with the volume and pressure of the work, you're no longer valued as an employee. Conform and don't complain. Steering. Totally incompetent and intimidating to those below them. Talk in circles, extremely bureaucratic behaviour, incite drama and arguments between departments, intimidate and bully coworkers from departments other than their own. I even witnessed steering managers taking credit for work that other people did. Then the apple doesn't fall far from the tree in Middle Management. Some of the managers tend to be sociopaths, business psychopaths - again, bully and intimidate, try to hide their incompetency. If you have thin skin, don't apply for a job at IKEA because there are mean characters everywhere, waiting to tear strips off you.

Management only cares about their bonuses. In order to get their bonuses, they must keep operating expenses down, which mean they reduce their workforce and labour and make all the people on the floor work twice as hard. Its a really horrible place to work. In fact, 1 in 3 people leave within the first 6 months, thats how bad it is. Out of all the large multinational corporations i have worked for, this would have to be the worst. No work life balance, bad rostering , expected to work 105 hrs+ per fortnight even though contract is only 75.