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G4S is a security company. They provide specialist security and facilities management services for businesses.

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G4S job reviews

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  • Best thing

    No seeing your manager

    Worst thing

    G4s has a whole

    2.4

    G4S Security officer, March 2024

  • Best thing

    Friendly staff and management.
    Pay is always spot on no worries of being underpaid.

    Worst thing

    Pay needs to increase to attract better staff or make people actually want to work

    8.8

    G4S Security officer, March 2024

  • Best thing

    Noyjing

    Worst thing

    Pay and having to travel

    1.1

    G4S Employee, March 2024

  • Best thing

    Your left alone to get on with it.

    Worst thing

    Management only talk to me if there's a problem or want something.

    8.9

    G4S Supervisor, February 2024

  • Best thing

    Pay, the team, supervisors, time off

    Worst thing

    HR

    9.1

    G4S Security officer, January 2024

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  • Best thing

    Free concerts and I like talking to people

    Worst thing

    Early starts can sometimes be tough but you don't need to take those shifts

    9.2

    G4S Event steward, January 2024

  • Best thing

    Kind public

    Worst thing

    Don’t work for G4s

    6.0

    G4S Security officer, January 2024

  • Best thing

    The team

    Worst thing

    The equipment and managers

    2.4

    G4S Security officer, January 2024

  • Worst thing

    Poor pay insensitive management structure with no care about the way staff feel

    1.5

    G4S Security officer, January 2024

  • Best thing

    Helping people

    Worst thing

    Pay, frequent abuse, not valued, treated like second class staff

    1.1

    G4S Security officer, January 2024

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  • Best thing

    Simple job.

    Worst thing

    Long hours of standing especially in rain

    6.1

    G4S Event steward, December 2023

  • Best thing

    Meeting people and my work colleagues

    Worst thing

    Trying to get leave

    7.1

    G4S Security officer, November 2023

  • Best thing

    Flexibility, quite straightforward,

    Worst thing

    Stressful, not regular staff

    5.5

    G4S Employee, September 2023

  • Best thing

    Flexible with work

    Worst thing

    Long shifts 12 hours a day no life on a work day

    7.3

    G4S Security officer, July 2023

  • Best thing

    The prisoners help you more otherwise you wouldn’t know anything

    Worst thing

    No support from managers and work collegues

    1.9

    G4S Employee, April 2023

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  • Best thing

    Paid on time

    Worst thing

    Management career block
    Payrise is not consistent
    Management lack in communication
    Management disorganised

    7.8

    G4S Employee, April 2023

  • Best thing

    The patient's and colleagues

    Worst thing

    Management and poor equipment eg. Ambulances it is embarrassing sometimes to pull up in a scrap heap

    3.9

    G4S Ambulance care assistant, February 2023

  • Best thing

    Security

    Worst thing

    Hours of travel to work

    9.4

    G4S Security officer, February 2023

  • Best thing

    The customers , lone working and away from managers

    Worst thing

    Over worked , unrealistic work load
    And being treated like shit

    1.7

    G4S Employee, February 2023

  • Best thing

    My colleagues

    Worst thing

    My management, underpaid, not respected and little to no communication

    1.2

    G4S Security guard, December 2022

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  • Best thing

    Never talk to my manager and it's stress free

    Worst thing

    When manager doesn't approve holidays until last minute

    3.9

    G4S Security officer, December 2022

  • Best thing

    Colleagues

    Worst thing

    Management, communication and organisation

    2.6

    G4S Team manager, November 2022

  • Best thing

    Daily Action, Awesome Colleagues

    Worst thing

    Danger everywhere (Needles from Drug Abuse, Knifes, Pieces of Glass, Hated by every Person and their Friend Group if you have to tell them to leave, Fights,…) and you dont get any Support from the Company in Court

    2.0

    G4S Security officer, November 2022

  • Best thing

    4 days working 4 days off

    Worst thing

    The managers

    3.0

    G4S Security officer, October 2022

  • Best thing

    Can have a drink or something to eat when I want

    Worst thing

    Rota

    2.6

    G4S Employee, October 2022

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  • Best thing

    Freedom not stuck in a office all day

    Worst thing

    No Incentive when asked to do over time, asked to come in last minute when your off, uniform is rare to get hold off, death in service money is not great, holidays are hard to get and much more

    2.0

    G4S Security officer, October 2022

  • Best thing

    Big hourly contract

    Worst thing

    Lone worker

    7.1

    G4S Security officer, September 2022

  • Best thing

    Easy and stress free work

    Worst thing

    Awful pay. Company so unorganised that pay is wrong for the first 3 or 4 months of employment. Don’t know where you’re going to be working until last minute making evening plans impossible because of unknown travel times

    6.4

    G4S Security officer, September 2022

  • Best thing

    The day to day life of working in prison

    Worst thing

    Just a number in such a large company
    Pay was very poor

    4.5

    G4S Prison officer, August 2022

  • Best thing

    Getting a permanent site

    Worst thing

    Running about all week and last minute changes to rota

    3.2

    G4S Security officer, July 2022

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  • Best thing

    Work at your own pace, getting to know your customers

    Worst thing

    Mangers, other drivers

    5.0

    G4S Driver, July 2022

  • Best thing

    Great colleges
    Get to explore kent because of the driving
    Get to meet great people

    Worst thing

    Poor management not caring about employees or giving them the time of day to explain themselves

    4.6

    G4S Ambulance care assistant, July 2022

  • Best thing

    I'm my own boss

    Worst thing

    Putting too much work on me

    8.0

    G4S General assistant, July 2022

  • Worst thing

    Travel from job to job

    8.0

    G4S Security officer, June 2022

  • Best thing

    The people I work beside.

    Worst thing

    Pay, hours, management, safety,PPE, no progress, have to pay for benifits.

    2.3

    G4S Security officer, June 2022

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  • Best thing

    Travel meeting different people

    Worst thing

    Work colleagues

    7.5

    G4S Employee, April 2022

  • Best thing

    Stress free

    Worst thing

    Standing and short breaks

    7.8

    G4S Employee, April 2022

  • Best thing

    You can leave your work at work.

    Worst thing

    Not listened too, no communication, not appreciated, no bonuses etc (lucky if we get chocolates at Christmas)… don’t pay living wage.

    7.3

    G4S Cashier, April 2022

  • Best thing

    Colleagues and clients

    Worst thing

    Stress and unrealistic expectations

    8.5

    G4S Support worker, September 2021

  • Worst thing

    The staff are hit and miss some are really good others make the job a hundred times harder

    3.9

    G4S Security officer, July 2021

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  • Best thing

    The team I work with

    Worst thing

    Too many managers. No consistency

    2.5

    G4S Employee, July 2021

  • Best thing

    Team members who care about the work they do.

    Worst thing

    Team members who do not care about the job.

    G4S as a whole is more interested in profit than delivering.

    4.5

    G4S Employee, July 2021

  • Best thing

    Different people Nd nationLities

    Worst thing

    Seeing people fade away in front of you

    6.1

    G4S Employee, July 2021

  • Best thing

    WORKING ON YOUR OWN

    Worst thing

    12 HOUR SHIFTS

    9.4

    G4S Employee, June 2021

  • Best thing

    Wages

    Worst thing

    I hate it. your just a number on a seat

    3.4

    G4S Delivery driver, June 2021

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  • Best thing

    Meeting people

    Worst thing

    Breaks are few and far between.

    1.1

    G4S Event steward, June 2021

  • Best thing

    Regular hours no weekend work

    Worst thing

    People ( customers 😂)

    9.9

    G4S Employee, May 2021

  • Best thing

    The hours
    The team
    The process
    My Diligence

    Worst thing

    The timekeeping others at times
    The stress of my self and others as stress wears off on others. As long as we work together as a team and communicate all is well.

    8.4

    G4S Event steward, May 2021

  • Best thing

    Crew mates

    Worst thing

    No communication from management

    7.5

    G4S Employee, May 2021

  • Best thing

    BREAKS DURING THE SHIFT

    Worst thing

    NIGHT SHIFTS

    8.4

    G4S Employee, April 2021