Foxtons are accused of chairing a culture of sexual harassment, racial abuse and drunk driving, whereby the staff claims that they were offered more potential customers if they stopped their complaints.
A former female employee claims that she was touched when she was 21 years old at the time and sent explicit reports by a colleague, and told him to start an ONYFANS account, but said that when she complained to Bazen, she was told: ” Everyone goes through that. '
After a 'debilitating' six -month research by Bloomberg, which saw more than 20 former and current Foxtons employees who worked at the company from 2020 and 2025 came to the fore with the claims of the bomb.
The company based in London is also confronted with allegations that driving drinks was 'everyday' and racial abuse against staff.
Whistleblowers claimed that managers made comments about their foreign accents, while it was reportedly called an 'immigrant' by a sales manager, and a senior Muslim employee complained to the Chief Executive after a colleague said he should have been 'happy' about October 7 Attack by Hamas on Israel.
This morning the share price of Foxtons fell by 5 percent – the largest decrease of six months – after the publication of the allegations, many of which are from Junior Staff.
Foxtons said that the accusations of intimidation and misconduct “takes extremely serious and thorough investigations.”
A former male employee told Bloomberg that he was told by a manager that he would offer him more potential customers if he dropped his complaints, but he was later 'starved from customers' and fired for 'bad performance'.
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People walk past a branch of Foxtons in Islington, London – December 10, 2021
Foxtons, known for his fleet of 'iconic' green minis, is seen as a training field for young people who want a career in the broker
In the report, another former staff member said that she received fewer 'hot leads' – a potential customer who wanted to buy or sell immediately – when she rejected the sexual progress of a senior colleague.
Several said they were told to wear 'sexy outfits' and high heels, while a current South Asian employee said that managers are making jokes about the food they bring in to work for lunch.
One employee claimed that he called Chief Executive Guy Gittins to complain about a senior colleague who had made a racist remark on him.
But he claims that Gittins told him that he did not believe that the accused employee would use that term.
Lawyers who act for Gittins and Foxtons said that the CEO 'does not accept' that this complaint has been filed and that he has rejected it.
“He does not tolerate racism and would like all such accusations to be the subject of immediate research and appropriate disciplinary steps,” they wrote.
Foxtons said in a statement: 'We provide compulsory annual training for all 1,400 employees, including the board, about sexual harassment, respectful workplace behavior and managing personal relationships at work, in addition to clear and tested escalation processes, confidential whistle -lider systems and feedback studies.
“We are proud of our workforce, which reflects the lively and diverse population of London, and we are aimed at promoting an environment in which our people feel able to speak.”
The company said it had removed alcohol since July 2023 from sales meetings on Friday where earlier wine, beer and champagne had flowed.
Employees claimed that bosses had leveled them to drink during the meetings, with a female employee who claimed that after one meeting she was in a car accident while she was driven by an employee who was 'heavy under the influence of alcohol'.
Guy Gittins became Chief Executive of Foxtons in 2022 and promised to 'bring back the pleasure'
This month, the company published its last accounts that showed that the turnover had grown by around 5 percent to £ 147 million in 2023
There were allegations from female employees who were chased by senior colleagues at the Christmas parties of Foxtons, where a waiter had to intervene in one incident.
On the Shindig 2022, a woman said in her early 1920s that she was grabbed on the stairs and kissed with violence before an area manager told her that he wanted sex with her that night.
Foxtons, known for his fleet of 'iconic' green minis, is seen as a training field for young people who want a career in the broker.
A shiny video on the career section of his website shows Gittins and the staff smiling while they walk over a bridge before 'we like to win' appears in daring white and yellow letters.
'At Foxtons it is a special kind of mentality and an insatiable hunger to succeed. But if you pop up with that, we promise to help you satisfy, “reads a blurb under it.
Gittins was made Chief Executive in 2022 and promised 'to bring back the pleasure' with 'Blowout Staff Parties and the Return of Ski Holidays' for best performing staff.
Staff Leaderboards are also projected on screens on the Chiswick headquarters of the company, where energetic music is played, and there is a 'big red button' that wins triggers flashing lights, a sale is confirmed.
“It is so important for sellers to enjoy their work,” he told the Telegraph in 2023. “Difference sellers are generally not big sellers. But super happy, self -assured, proactive people make great, great sellers. '
This month, the company published its last accounts that showed that the turnover had grown by around 5 percent to £ 147 million in 2023.
Adapted operational profits at around £ 14 million, which has credited to 'decoupling profit from sales market cycles'.
Annual turnover from rental rose for the first time by 16 percent to more than £ 100 million on the back of organic growth and the purchase of 2,800 property of Atkinson McLeod and Ludlow Thompson.
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