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Specsavers
Why does Specsavers get a rating of 5.5?
Based on 116 job reviews, employees tell us the following about Specsavers
- Good for parents
- Paid accurately
- People get proper breaks
- Good for students
- Easy to book holiday
- Easy to take sick leave
- Good choice of shifts
- Enough training
- No short notice shift changes
- Opportunities to progress
- Managers are respectful
- No unpaid extra work
- Well informed about head office
- Not easy to change shifts
- People donβt recommend their team
- Less than 4 weeks notice of shifts
- Head office doesnβt understand the frontline
- People feel stressed
- Breaks arenβt paid
- People donβt get sick pay
Based on 116 job reviews
About
Specsavers is an opticians. They also sell hearing aids.
Pay ranges
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Β£7.45β9.29 per hour
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Β£8.70β13.32 per hour
Handy to know
How much notice do people get of their shifts?
Based on 89 employees
What contracts are people on?
Based on 69 employees
How often do people get paid?
Based on 116 employees
How are people paid?
Based on 116 employees
Featured Specsavers job reviews
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Best thing
Varied role, lots of training available
Worst thing
Low pay, no sick pay, irate customers, expected to always increase sales when customer numbers and prices remain the same, short staffed
Assistant manager, March 2021
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Best thing
Interaction with other members of staff
Worst thing
Being on my feet all day and climbing 70 flights of stairs all day
Optical assistant, December 2020
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Best thing
Set hours now (but wasn't before covid)
Worst thing
Pay doesn't reflect what we actually deal with
Optical assistant, February 2021
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Best thing
Friendly small team
Interesting, something new every day
Career progressionWorst thing
Smaller team means workload is too large
If someone calls in sick it makes the day harder for everyone elseOptical assistant, September 2020
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Specsavers ranks 2nd to work for in opticians
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- 2 Specsavers
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