More appearance than substance for the past five years.
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Management should have mentors. Communicate on eye level with your employees. Don't say something and act the other way. One comment here was really triggering: The camaraderie you describe among colleagues is something we are genuinely proud of and deeply want to protect. - Then don't fire people within a day.
Build transparency for the salary topic. People who work for this company are working here with the full heart and always went the extra mile. With a default compensation the people lose motivation and don't feel appreciated because they are literally not part of the company's success. They will start stopping with the extra mile if not happend already.
Arbeitsatmosphäre
Absolutely catastrophic the last 1,5 - 2 years. Atmosphere is very tense, people are fearing if they will lose their jobs right now. Starting with McKinsey a while ago, the company has changed so much. Having ambitions to grow the Corporate Character is understanding. However, not involving the people is leading to this very frustrating atmosphere. It is now a Management vs. the "normal" people. Beginning with the very straight disagree from the Management to not have a work council because "we will lose speed and the tonies character" - we are doing that without a work council too. Because of intransparent decisions and poor communication, people are overworked and go 2 steps forward just to go back by 3 steps. Shiny initiatives are shown by the C-Suite such as an improved Performance Feedback Cycles/content of it. Or implementing incentives. This was communicated months ago and so far we received the information, that our yearly training budget is reduced by x% because it goes into the individual development plans. Jokes on you, there was never a budget communicated on how much we can spend on a training.
Image
The brand is an icon and nobody can say anything about that. People are impressed by the image but if this work environment is going on like this, the image is not balancing the bad sides anymore.
Work-Life-Balance
Very flexible hours if you take care to attend meetings and prepare accordingly.
Karriere/Weiterbildung
Nobody knows what trainings you can do. In this case, you have to look after yourself and try get the best out for you with an external training or so.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
Without the Team, many of us would not survive the daily business. We are helping us, either with topics or just listening and exchanging.
Umgang mit älteren Kollegen
Not directly talking about "elder" colleagues but also people with kids. Firings are targeting people with familiy and also one elder colleague. Very unfair treatments and to be honest, nobody feels very safe at the moment.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
Depends on the level as previously mentioned. Hands of the direct manager is often bound by the higher levels.
Arbeitsbedingungen
Can choose between Mac and Windows. Desks in the offices are adjustable in height. Offices are different, some are pretty modern and some are older. Difficult to work in the summer and deep winter.
Kommunikation
Very high level presentations with lots of terms and numbers that are far to understand for everybody. The more far away from the Management you are, the worse the communication. Empty words in mails in meetings. Some in the C-Suite are not capable of delivering meaningful words and even a thank you is triggering eye rolling within the colleagues.
In the Team it is good within a certain Level. From Director Level on, it is like another world. It seems like talking to a Marionette from the C-Suite.
The direct People Manager is very transparent and tries their best to keep the Team updated and together. Of course it is also hard because they are very in between. Within the Team itself it is pretty strong. Due to the amount of people it is not easy to be on track with everybody, but everybody is very open to communicate.
Gehalt/Benefits
Salary raises are not easy to get, at least over 4-6%. Since I started, there was never a negotiation. It was always decided by whatever fact. There is a bonus yearly, same amount for everybody. Employees are disappointed since tonies is growing and showing good numbers. Even though the number may be not the actual profit, the Management is not referring any bonus to the actual business. Apparently a bonus program will be rolled out but as I know this company, it either take a long while or it is unclear with obstacles.
Apparently there is now an internal benchmark system so a raise has a fundament, but nobody has seen it. Raises are decided by the Management, so we got told, and we still don't understand how they would rank us when they don't even know all of our names.
Interessante Aufgaben
You can explore your strenghts and mostly you can focus on the topics you like the most. As long as the tasks are done, it is pretty open to align directly with your teammates.