Change Overload - Avis employé Senior Client Service Executive Rathbones

There are currently a lot of changes with the recent merger. Cause uneasiness and change fatigue. Lots of information overload at the moment. There is still a sense and feeling of an old boys school. There is a majority of men in higher roles, or as investment directors and senior financial planners. Would like to see more diversity in higher roles and people in those roles open to seeing more diversity and changes. Some colleagues / employees like to use weaponised incompetence and act like they don’t know parts of their role, but that’s because they don’t bother to attend training they should and don’t bother to know more / learn. Instead relying on lower paid colleagues to do the job for them. Pay rises and bonus’ have been good in the past. This years pay rise for lower ranked staff (I.e. not financial planners, investment managers or not on the board) was really poor despite the record profits made this year. The excuse being that with the merger there are a lot of costs. A lot of work has been done by people following the merger, with work life balance being stretched and people have not been rewarded accordingly.