Avoid FIRMWIDE! - Anonymous employee Gensler Employee Review

Thank you for taking the time to provide us with feedback on your experience. At Gensler, we pride ourselves on maintaining open relationships with all of our team members. We endeavor to hire the design industry’s top talent and empower them to pursue their passions. In this spirit, we welcome all feedback so that we can better understand how our approach can and should be tweaked to realize this vision. We appreciate your willingness to mention our offices throughout the world—many of which were designed by Gensler team members—as well as the overall creative vibe that results from passionate designers working on projects that inspire them. At this point, we’d like to encourage you to reach out to either your regional or office HR manager so that you can have a confidential discussion about some of the issues you raised. We sincerely want you and your colleagues to have rewarding professional experiences moving forward, and we’d very much like to work with you to ensure this happens. With regards to comments made about working in our Firmwide division, we’d like to address several points. First, we ask all of our people, and especially our managers, to treat their colleagues with the sort of respect and dignity a harmonious professional environment demands. We require our managers to maintain collaborative working relationships with the practitioners they oversee and to solicit input from team members under their supervision. The respect we have for our people is evidenced in the fact that Gensler is a 100 percent employee owned company. Gensler provides ESOP and profit sharing benefits as part of a total compensation approach that is competitive with industry standards. We promote based on performance and merit, offer wellness benefits such as flu shots, biometric screenings, and other programs tailored to the needs of various offices. We review compensation once a year. We also ask our team members to regularly provide us with honest feedback on their experiences, and we always welcome constructive criticism. Thank you again for the feedback, and please reach out to an HR manager as soon as it’s convenient.