I've worked for my company for ten years – just hit that anniversary in April. This place has consistently been awarded one of the top places to work. We had full remote options in 2015 because of our amazing Chief People Officer (he retired a few years back). The pay was meh, but the job was flexible, allowed time for personal development, the benefits were good and my team was great to work with.
I won't detail the pretty short journey to how we got here today, but I just attended a town hall meeting (always a “drink the koolaid” circle jerk but whatever, I never minded attending before) and I am now crying. Why?
Our company has been dealing with horrific first year attrition since the pandemic. Data from hundred of exit interviews indicate common themes – the job is too stressful, leadership is lacking, and the pay isn't good enough. We know this.
Let's just say that to save their asses and bonuses, my team just got shit on in a week of town halls by leadership. Without being notified we were apparently causing any issue at all. After my entire team got downgraded to “met expectations” during our year end reveiws to not pay us bonuses – after saving the company THREE MILLION DOLLARS by completely carrying a huge software migration on our own that increased my entire team's workload permanently. But nope, no rasies, no budget for more FTE.
And now we're getting shit on in front of the entire company, completely blindsided.
In mere months, this company has lost the trust of my team, any ounce of psychological safety we had, our loyalty, and they're about to lose some long time, very experienced, very dedicated employees.
Don't even get me fucking started on them forcing work from office culture down our throats after praising us for amazing wfh efficiency, or the fact that wfh was lauded as a great option well before the pandemic.
I used to think this company was different, one of the good ones. But it's just another corporate culture example of shit from the top down. I am looking for new jobs starting today.