Just When You Thought It Couldn’t Get Any Worse
Pros
Direct colleagues are supportive - everyone knows we have to stick together for the sake of our sanity. Decent pay though eroded by inflation Bupa and Pension
Cons
Forced into the office two days per week purely for the sake of presenteeism. Sitting in a busy noisy office with everyone on Teams calls with colleagues in India and other parts of the UK. Office is so busy that you’re sitting next to randoms that you don’t know. Offices being closed and everyone forced into hubs or they lose their jobs. They wonder why motivation is low. It’s a toxic culture of CEO and team not listening and forcing the senior managers to operate under policies they don’t agree with. Senior managers are toeing the line but they’re demotivated too. No need for senior managers as they have autonomy anyway. Restructuring every 6 months so nobody feel confident in their roles. It’s hostile and everyone is walking on egg shells. Far too many good performing people are losing their jobs purely because of where they live. This nonsense of only recruiting people who live locally serves to hamper people’s career opportunities, loses decent people their jobs and hampers the business because it limits the pool that managers can recruit from. We can only recruit the best people from that location when the best person lives elsewhere. It’s utterly demoralising. Flexible working has been removed which is just leading to burn out and mistakes being made. Worst of all is the fact that the CEO and team openly admit they don’t care what people think and they definitely aren’t in listening mode. I’ve never known a CEO like it. His way or the highway!
