Oxfam reviews

3.9

68% would recommend to a friend

(1,669 total reviews)
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Mark Goldring

70% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Oxfam has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,669 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Oxfam employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the ONG y Organizaciones sin fines de lucro industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
2.0
Jan 9, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible working hours in shops, nice volunteers and customers.

Cons

First of all, the onboarding process takes forever. It could be 1-2 months until you start working. Then you might not get any practical training until your 5th month of employment, only the online training regarding safeguarding and GDPR and the rest, but they seem to expect everything from you just because they haven't got the time or resources to train you now. If that's not enough, Oxfam has a website for everything. Holiday requests? Use this website. Training? Another website. Expenses? A third one. I may have missed some as nobody ever told me or showed me what I might need. To top it all off, all of these are so badly designed and often their pdf guides are outdated or just not very good. As a volunteer I enjoyed my time here, but that fun was buried alive after a few weeks of being employed. Never in my life have a had a job that did not start with proper training. Laughable.

1.0
Jan 8, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

No positive points come to mind. Not a good experience

Cons

A very bad working environment with an atrocious management team. Not a very safe place to work as customers can be quite abusive. Too much responsibility thrown on volunteers expected to basically do most of the work while the management does what they want which is basically nothing. Very poor conduct from the overall organisation Oxfam themselves. Only concerned with meeting sale targets, volunteers mean more or less nothing to them and get little or no benefits for giving their time volunteering in the organisation. No interest from the company whatsoever in dealing with complaints from volunteers.

3.0
Jan 6, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good employer to work for

Cons

no issues were faced whatsoever.

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