IKEA reviews

Incompetent upper level management. No system of checks & balances.

Working as a team leader in IKEA Food can be very challenging because you have a lot of areas to which you answer: your store leadership, your HR department, and your service office (corporate) leaders for Food. You are expected to get everything done in 40 hours a week, which is great for work-life balance but can be very difficult because there is a lot of documentation required and you are effectively trying to run 4 food businesses with a management team of 3 to 5 people, and there are always HR issues and deadlines, employee scheduling, equipment issues, changes in procedure, meetings, events, promotions, inspections and audits, employee call-outs, and high volumes of business on the weekends that make accomplishing tasks very challenging. It is nearly impossible to focus on any single managerial task without getting interrupted. This can be very stressful if you are the type of person that stresses out about being behind in your work. You are constantly prioritizing and trying to "catch-up".