Ofcom spends its days policing the internet, but the regulator seems to be paying far less attention to own patch. Employees have taken to job review site Glassdoor, with new complaints pushing the workplace satisfaction rating from four stars in June to 3.5 stars. In only four months…
A senior data scientist of more than five years titled their review “Avoid like the plague”, listing the cons as simply “Everything.” A former senior associate describes a culture of “bullying, passive aggressive behaviour” encouraged by senior leadership. Another former employee described a disorganised operation where “poor managers burnt out themselves with no capacity to support junior colleagues”. The one positive thing reviewers seem to agree on is that the office is in a “great location” with a view of the Thames…
It’s hardly surprising when you look at the size Ofcom has grown to. They now regulate the internet, broadcasting, broadband, phones, post and spectrums, and data centres. The total number of employees has almost doubled since 2018 to 1,682. When even its own staff are warning people away, it must be time to ask whether Ofcom should exist at all…
Lucy Powell told Sky News that the Ed Miliband-Russell Brand interview happened in part because the ‘social media age’ had not begun by 2015:
“Look, I mean, he approached the Labour Party, he approached the campaign team, and we’re in very different times now. We weren’t in the social media age at the time – where you could maybe search things up and see allegations about somebody at the time. and as I say, if there was any suggestion at all, we were dealing with someone who was a known sexual predator at the time, then, of course, you know, no one would have done that. But as I say, he was a well known public figure. Lots of people from Hollywood to the BBC to many others gave this person a very, very powerful platform. And we didn’t know at the time, unfortunately. It was a different era.”