9: Launch Housing Employee Reviews

High demand work requiring fast turn-around times and quick responses from service delivery contractors. Although the work location was good the office space was crowded and noisey.

Pros

Fringe Benefit Tax

Cons

Unorganised operatons.

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Coworkers professional and passionate, management incompetent don’t walk the talk.

Support Worker (Casual) (Former Employee) - Melbourne VIC - 21 September 2021

Launch housing as an organisation that consistently ignores what is most important and should be at the centre of all they do….their clients. No proactive communication or consultation is done, the clients’ perspective is not considered when decisions are made. Launch housing calls telling people what has been already decided by management, “consultation “ If you are passionate about working with people who are homeless or who have experienced homelessness and have a high tolerance for trauma and incompetent managers, this is the job for you.

Pros

Good at making posters

Cons

Lack understanding and compliance re covid safety.

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High turn over of staff and poor career growth prospect.

Homelessness (Current Employee) - Melbourne VIC - 30 March 2021

Super busy; no work-life balance. Staff are not treated as equal, management does not understand the hard work involved in managing clients with complex needs. Bias underperformance perceptions - managers often place any individual into an out-group whilst consciously seek affirmation of their own perception setting staff to fail. One-sided HR encourages this behaviour. Senior roles allocated to friends/families of managers; challenging this opinion will result in underperformance investigations of the individual.Discouragement of generational diversity organisation prefers to employ the younger generation. Barriers in creating diversity and inclusion in the organisations are not recognised, therefore not addressed. Most enjoyable - hearing success stories of our clients. The hardest part of the job - lack of managers support and accountability

Pros

Working with diverse clients and helping them to find and sustain housing.

Cons

Low wages high expectation, no recognition.

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Good experience - Collaborative workplace

Data Analyst - ICT (Former Employee) - Melbourne VIC - 13 October 2020

I enjoyed this contract at Launch, everyone co-operating to get to the main goal. I'd work there again. Management was flexible with Remote work & were easy to work for.

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Poor recruiting process

Tertiary Qualified Applicant (Former Employee) - Not sure (Dandenong..) - 22 September 2020

Recruitment is sloppy with recruitment personnel not replying in a timely manner to requested information from applicants. Post interview, I was asked for another referee which I supplied but I heard nothing back. It undermines the standard of professionalism - which applicants are required to uphold. I had secured a professional referee ( & THEIR valuable time) & Heard- no reply /Launch Housing.

Pros

None actually

Cons

Sloppy/ Unprofessional

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Worker (Former Employee) - Collingwood VIC - 6 August 2020

Not recommended to get involved in, standards of hiring, more to say a personal business more room for improvement and better use public funding. at least to help homeless

Pros

High salary

Cons

Management/ HR not complying with equal opportunities

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Loved it!

Coordinator (Former Employee) - Dandenong VIC & Southbank Vic - 14 December 2019

I agree that in some instances different sites can be 'clicky' and some managers could do with some further people skills. I also agree that at times there is quite a bit of nepotism, again dependant on the site. My time at Launch Housing was amazing, it opened up so many opportunities and provided a good work life balance. Pay was definitely comparable and the Org. Were taking measures to improve the work life balance and culture even more.Coordinator

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Terrible place to work

Waitress (Former Employee) - Melbourne VIC - 24 August 2019

Difficult place to work - managerual are clicky and abusive - often don’t practice what they preach and Many people have left worse. Residents who go in with no history of drug use come out drug addicted and are often homeless and in a worse state than when they went in

Pros

Good front of house staff

Cons

Abusive hypercritical and have not walked the walk

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Data Specialist Contractor (Current Employee) - Collingwood VIC - 15 March 2018

Launch housing has a work life balanced sort of a structure. The culture here is really friendly and everyone is ready to help each other.To work in an organization like this also gives you a satisfaction as you are working for the good of people.

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