Absolute People Screen "Work Culture" Reviews

Employer's Response

This review has been written by an intern who either absconded or was terminated for cause. Majority of the candidates who intern with us leave on a very positive note and have a great work experience with us. Some interns join and expect that as a part of the Work Culture they can sit at their workstations with ear phones plugged in and work while listening to music, keep phones at their workstation to check WhatsApp and do what it pleases. Being a company that handles customer and candidate sensitive data we do not allow phones at workstation, don't permit earphones at work and some interns see this as freedom taken away from them and hence link this with work culture. Interns are required to read their offer letters to understand the stipend payment date. Majority of the interns do not read the stipend payout date and then start complaining only to be directed back and told to reach the offer letter. Interns are not allowed leaves except in cases of family emergency or exams. Often some interns choose to have an emergency every single week and hence leaves are denied. If someone on the team has one emergency per week it is a serious problem to have. Interns are not permitted or eligible for leaves and hence all leaves are to be covered. The same is mentioned clearly on the Offer Letter under Schedule 1. All companies that are in the services domain where productivity and delivery to the client on time is of paramount importance will require interns to cover up for loss of productive hours. If an intern is late one of days we do not insist for a cover up but if someone is a chronic or a habitual late comer then we have to ask them to cover up for loss of productive time. It is important to notice the irony here - That the intern who has written this review has a problem with late payment of stipend (as claimed by him/her) but at the same time thinks that it is perfectly fine to come to the office 15 minutes late regularly and the company shouldn't ask them to cover up. We got to play it even. When you as an intern are late to office then suddenly you expect that it is OKAY to do this but if the company is late (if at all) in release of stipend then suddenly it is NOT OKAY. We got to even it out somewhere.

Employer's Response

This review has been written by a disgruntled intern who absconded from work without doing any formal hand over - take over of work responsibilities. This individual has just poured their frustration on Ambition Box without offering any insights to anyone. We choose not to respond in detail on such bogus / sham reviews written by disgruntled people who may have worked with us just short time.

Employer's Response

Work culture plays an important role in extracting the best out of employees. The organization must offer a positive ambience to the employees for them to concentrate on their work rather than interfering in each other’s work. What is work culture ? Work culture is a concept which deals in the study of: Beliefs, thought processes, attitudes of the employees. Ideologies and principles of the organization. It is the work culture which decides the way employees interact with each other and how an organization functions. In layman’s language work culture refers to the mentality of the employees which further decides the ambience of the organization. An organization is said to have a strong work culture when the employees follow the organization’s rules and regulations and adhere to the existing guidelines. However there are certain organizations where employees are reluctant to follow the instructions and are made to work only by strict procedures. Such organizations have a weak culture. At Absolute People Screen we have a very strong work Culture whether you work short time or long term.

Employer's Response

Dear Colleague - Very sorry to hear about your experience with us. They say - What Goes Around - Comes Around In Our Life. Same holds very true for your work life as well. Usually employees who do an astounding job at their company will have astounding careers vs. those who are unable to get their work right. Regarding your issues. 1) Our Holiday policy is clearly explained during the interview process. 2) The Employment offer letter has clear sections on how holidays work during Probation and after Probation. 3) The Induction training for all New Hires explains how Holidays work in our company. 4) New Hires are given access to the company holiday calendar when they go live. You reviewed & signed all pages of our Employment Terms & Conditions before starting with us. If you joined Absolute People Screen with an intent that you could take Holidays at free will then you probably joined a wrong company. There is a clear and a very well defined process for applying for a Holiday / Leave with us. We have been working on the Salary component and have raised our salary bar by almost 20% for New Hirings. The New Hires that were hired in 2019 were hired at 20% higher CTC as compared to the New Hires who were hired before 2019. This is an area of improvement for us and we are working on this one. Work Culture - Majority of the people who work with us and have stayed long term have truly enjoyed working with us. At this juncture it is tough to comment on what you found missing on the Work Culture component at Absolute. Probation - You are probably a colleague whose probation got extended because of work performance issues and leaves denied because of issues at work. That explains why you are disgruntled. You had 6 months to get your work right to a minimum acceptable standard with our company. If you fail to achieve that your probation will get extended. We don't make employees with poor and unacceptable work performance permanent in our company. Yes, it is indeed correct. The 2 directors who run Absolute People Screen have a spousal relationship. You failed to do your home work on this aspect. A lot of large and many successful companies are run by couples and a lot of these are billion dollar companies. To name a few: Landmark Group, Panda Express, Cuties, Marvell, Little Caesar's Pizza, Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores, Forever 21, Syntel, Wal-Mart and many many more.