The Nicest Company Around - Avis employé Digital PR Outreach Executive Search Intelligence

A 4 day working week

The decline of Search Intelligence is genuinely disappointing. What was once a company known for strong employee benefits—such as a four-day working week and a supportive, positive environment—has shifted into a culture marked by blame and uncertainty. Over the past 18 months, there have been significant redundancies, with many highly capable and hardworking employees either let go or choosing to leave. At the same time, there has been a strong focus from leadership on developing and investing in new AI tools aimed at streamlining the digital PR process. However, these systems appear to be largely untested, and employees have often been expected to use them without sufficient guidance or training. Despite the outward narrative presented on LinkedIn, the internal reality tells a different story. Workloads and KPIs have become increasingly unrealistic and difficult to manage, leading to widespread burnout. Concerns raised by employees have seemingly gone unacknowledged by senior management. Client expectations are also being impacted. Campaigns are often overpromised in terms of link delivery, yet underdelivered due to the sheer volume of work and lack of time available to execute campaigns effectively. Overall, there appears to be a lack of accountability at senior levels, with additional pressure continually placed on already overstretched teams rather than addressing the root issues.

Four day week and decent pay for the contracted hours worked.

Micromanaging is rife at this company. Management spend all their time critiquing and deflect any issues that come up. There is no true managing happening, only blaming and refusing to look at what really needs changing. The founder and ceo is obsessed with AI tools in the workplace and deploys them with no warning and no testing, leaving employees scrambling to figure things out. When these inevitably don't work, they are scrapped and forgotten about so he can move onto the next thing. SI is a testing board for his own interests. Employees are overworked, expected to run an entire campaign from ideation to outreach but are not given the time to do so. Clients are promised results within a month which gives no time for new and interesting angles. The team are encouraged to resend the same stories over and over again with barely any new information, leading to stagnant outreach and no links.