IKEA reviews

-Your experience with workload depends on your location. Low volume stores are strapped, and turnover is constant from overwork and burnout. High volume stores the job is exponentially easier to achieve and more fun. -Some stores are Vaps (IKEAs version of a franchise) and you may have a 4-6 yr experience with a Store Manager that is in there to make their buck and run, regardless of what they say when they come in -Company has changed dramatically in the USA. Roots are European (Swedish) and there is a massive difference in the way our European counterparts experience IKEA vs US team -To grow beyond a store level, you must move to Conshohocken Pennsylvania and work for the Service Office. (At least that is what they say, yet they continue to make exceptions for some people and require others to move depending on the department)

-Awful scheduling -Ridiculous pay banding -Favouritism -Little career mobility outside of specific demographics -Introduced a covid plan with heavy responsibility on co-workers and gradually eliminated manager responsibilities. -covid plan was focused on surface cleaning with no regard for aerosols, and does not require customers to wear a mask (co-workers must) -Positive coworker covid case reporting is done on the basis of "cases in the last 2 weeks" so as to obscure the true number of co-workers that have contracted it, which to my estimation has been considerable. -Hours were cut and no support was given for the new waves of customer abuse brought on by various circumstances related to current events. -Company is very quick to flaunt how progressive it is, but regularly makes the lives of disabled, queer, and nonwhite coworkers hell. Accomodations are regularly denied, leadership positions are several times more likely to go to white cis coworkers, and any attempt to get good PR as a forward thinking company is done in a desparate bid to avoid reckoning with how material circumstances actually play put if you're a marginalized co-worker at Ikea. -it's difficult to leave a department with an abusive manager, they have veto power on transfers. This is regularly used in a punitive measure. I've seen it happen, twice. -When management walks through your department, prepare to be stared at, but never acknowledged as a person.