Employee focus has been lost - Manager Alaska Airlines Employee Review

2.0
Apr 8, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Some amazing people to work with and the company has a great focus on the external customer. Annual bonus has been fantastic the last few years as the company has been meeting all its metrics.

Cons

They just took away a week of vacation from management, which typically means the labor groups are next. Never heard of a company making amazing profits and numerous awards taking away vacation from its employees. How does that make sense? Employees are seeing this as greedy. Their communication to employees about change is horrible and HR comments are often insensitive. Pay is low compared to same jobs at other companies. HR admits they use national averages for their wage comparisons, knowing that's not what we are competing against and the areas we operate have far higher average wages. New employees with less experience in a role can make just as much as those with far more experience and have been at the company for several years. Essentially, you are rewarded for being new and not for being committed.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Good work environment and culture. Leadership is strong.

Cons

Terrible compensation practice. Outdated approach, especially with corporate back office roles. Leaders have zero say in salaries. The compensation team has an outdated approach to pay and are not open to stay with the current market trends and challenging to partner with. There needs to be a willingness to change and align with the local job market. There needs to be an openness to listen to leaders' input. Its hard to hire and hard to attract retain good employees when we are competing with local employers in the Seattle area that offer better pay. It is very challenging to work with a compensation leader and team that do not listen.

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