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A co-founder of Scottish craft beer firm BrewDog has issued an open letter to apologize to more than 60 former employees after complaining about a toxic work environment that has sparked concern among the company’s army of small shareholders.
In an Instagram post, Martin Dickie wrote: I want to offer my sincere apologies to everyone who put their name on that list.
As the one whose idea it was to start a brewery in the first place and as a director and shareholder and co-founder I feel the responsibility lies with me.
In a letter earlier this week, he offered to meet with former or former employees who wanted to discuss the working environment at the Aberdeenshire brewery, which has been accused of creating a culture of fear.
Former staff told the Guardian that Dickies’ words were better received than the initial response from James Watt, the company’s other co-founder and the public face of both the company’s rapid growth and mainstream controversies.
Watt initially considered convening current staff to write a counter-letter before giving up on the plan and issuing a full letter apology. In an earlier comment on a staff forum, he wrote that the company’s fast-paced and intense environment is certainly not for everyone.
Punks With Purpose, a group of former employees who posted the original open letter to Twitter, said it was grotesque to suggest that employees raising concerns were underperforming or unable to hack the letter.
Amid the claims and counterclaims, the fallout from the affair spread to some BrewDog’s 130,000 equity punks, a typically loyal group of small shareholders who helped fund the company’s impressive growth.
A web forum for equity punks wrote that as far as I’m concerned, the true colors have finally been revealed.
Another said the appointment of a chairman and independent non-executive directors was overdue at BrewDog, which is expected to seek an IPO soon.
[] The company must behave as if it were a fully publicly traded company, along with all the board that goes with it, they wrote.
BrewDogs HR team also emailed staff saying they were surprised and sad that working there had left such a negative impression, adding that the letter paints a different picture of what it’s like. to work at BrewDog these days.
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