Was great until it wasn't...fast-paced and large scale changes isn't necessarily always a good thing. In short, they will promise the world and sell it as a great place to be but in reality - just run, run away!The good thingsPre-2023 Target was an awesome place to work. The culture, the teams and healthy collaboration between everyone, the workload were manageable and they had great flexibility of work life balance which was something many other businesses strived for. It was a joy to come in 5 days a week (pre-covid)! When you have employees stick around with the same company for decades - its a testament to the employer that they're doing something right! And the sample sales were the BOMB-DIGGITY! But then...
The challenges...the Kmart Group took over & things literally turned on their head almost overnight. Work went offshore, redundancies were continuously made, reduction in team numbers as those leaving were never replaced, higher workloads as did the stress levels. Kmart management basically took over the Target management roles, which already made it extremely click-y, so was hard to get support from them when you needed it. All the culture and fun was sucked out of the workplace as it became all about the box-ticking exercises that FORCED people to do things outside of their job role (eg: head office employees made to work in stores for 'experience' & attending all day offsites in areas of 2+ hour travel time, cutting into the working week). People were burnt out & having to go above & beyond outside of their role for even the slightest recognition. Every new appointed CEO had radical new changes with no real acknowledgement of how systems and current processes may or may not adapt or handle them.