Many of the new reviews are clearly fake! - Project Manager AECOM Employee Review

So very many... The new layout in every office is going to be migrated to the open format, like a call center or an old-time bull pen, VERY distracting. This is STRICTLY an accounting decision, no thought has been given to employee health or satisfaction. Project managers who have 25 years of seniority (and a lot of reference material) are shoved into a working space no larger than 5 x 5 ft. Google the effects of this type of layout on employees. Vacation days have been reduced every few years, we are currently seven days plus one floating holiday. Insurance is outrageously expensive and all benefits are below industry standard. Accounting, IT, and management is HEAVY in this company, backbreaking heavy, unbearably heavy (you get the idea); and SO inefficient, it is an unbelievable joke. Administrative staff have been cut across the board so our clients are paying senior people several hundred dollars an hour to make copies, file, and assemble reports. AECOM does NOT pay their bills on time while simultaneously demanding early payment from clients, looks like they have a serious cash flow problem. To get software necessary for a job takes 4 - 6 weeks because of the multitude of approvals it must go through, and if said software requires a dongle to run, guess what, several more weeks of waiting for it to be shipped to Massachusetts to get "logged" before they send it to you...when they feel like it. You are not permitted to install software on your own machine, which I understand for certain levels, for programmers, this is an absurd situation. The accounting system is beyond heinous. It is bloated, inefficient, nearly impossible to understand (and there are some smart people here!), and USELESS. You can be 90% billable for years, have one month where you drop below 70%, they force you to use your vacation, followed by mandatory standby leave of absence (no pay of course), then you will be riffed. No time is permitted to do marketing, you are told that you MUST get 40 hours billable and then do business development ON YOUR OWN TIME. They have outsourced IT to MEXICO...what few good, useful people are left in the US IT are overworked and treated poorly. They are blamed for upper management's poor decisions BY UPPER MANAGEMENT! External training and conferences are HIGHLY discouraged, if not outright denied. They have sent out employee surveys to "Make Amazing Happen Here". I can assure you, the only thing happening here is mediocrity. I understand if you are desperate for a job and have to take one here, but get out as soon as you can. EVERYTHING is broken from management down to entry level employee morale.