Now with the omicron variant in RI, senior management still insists on bringing people back to work on-site because that’s just what they want. They keep saying “they’re listening” but if that were the case they’d admit people do not want to be in the office and want to work remotely.
You have senior management sitting in their spacious private offices telling the rest of us who work in an open space floor plan that we need to come back into the office because of some amorphous “culture” that’s mostly performance by a CEO who never comes out of his office except to do things like have his photo taken at PR-type events.
For some unexplained reason a handful of people were allowed to move and work permanently from home while others were told no, you have to come back into the Petrie dish that is our office space. No explanation why some are allowed to work remotely on a permanent basis while the majority are not.
Senior management likes to point to every other reason employees are leaving in droves except their own failed policies. They say “we’re listening” but especially with regards to remote work, the response has sometimes been downright hostile like “why do you keep asking us this, we’ve decided you must come back on-site.” How long does it take to decide “what’s best” when you’ve been told for the past year what we want?
All the senior management has worked at Amica for most of their entire career life so they have a very narrow perspective on fresh ways of organizing the company including decision making and reporting structure.
They recently rolled out a weak “retention bonus” that’s stretched with installments over 6 months. This isn’t going to keep anyone who wants to leave since when you move to a new company, you automatically get a big pay increase well above the few dollars employees wind up getting with this bonus that has the taxes taken out of it and basically results in half the amount of the bonus they claim they’re giving.
They’re always talking about diversity but that is strictly superficial. Diversity of thought is not encouraged and decisions are made by senior management that is then pushed down on everyone else.
