Pluspunten
Argos promotes a no blame culture so it's actually quite a laid back place to work. You alse get staff discounts of 10% at Argos and 20% at Homebase.
Minpunten
I have worked here for over 10 years and it used to be a good place to work, the last 3-4 years things have just gone downhill. I work in IT and there has been a steady move to outsource more and more of our work to an Indian company called Infosys. The IT director keeps on stating how good a job they do, what he doesn't see is the bad quality work come back and how much effort we have to put in to get it to work. It would be quicker and better if we did this work in house in the first instance. Probably because of the no blame culture there is a total reluctance of management to accept responsibility for when things go wrong. On more than one occasion and most memorably at the IS conference a very senior manager said of RACO (a large project that has gone badly wrong) "We are where we are". That is a phrase used all too regularly by management, the irony that this phrase wouldn't pass the Turing Test is no doubt lost on them. I can't see this situation improving any time soon so I shall be joining the rapidly growing ranks who are leaving the department, it's a shame really I used to enjoy working here and there is still a real sense of camaraderie amongst the people who do the work.