Culture | Lap-dancing clubs used to inspire staff to hit targets

When employees turn up to work, they expect to fulfil their professional duties and to meet impeding corporate deadlines – not to be violated or sexually harassed.

Yet, a whistleblower at a top wealth management business has alleged that corporate trips to lap-dancing clubs, sexist working environments and potential criminal activity shrouded the firm’s corporate culture – The Sunday Times reported.

The whistleblower, who worked at one of St James’s Place (SJP) Wealth Management's Partner Practices, claimed that she felt pressured to “use her [physical assets]” to sell products, and said that she was told by senior staff that she would be successful at selling as she was a woman and because she was ‘a bit of a pocket rocket’.

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In a string of allegations put forward by several ex-workers, one former senior advisor claimed that “every quarter the regional managers [were] given a budget to incentivise production [which] normally took the form of an expensive meal in London followed by lap-dancing clubs”.