If you value a work/life balance, this might not be the place for you - Anonymous employee Rycon Construction Employee Review

* Appalling response to COVID, were not technologically prepared to send their employees home. Brought us back in as soon as they could, didn’t enforce COVID precautions. Let employees back in the building who had been in contact, didn’t enforce masks. * “Promoted” employees but with no change to compensation to make up for these new promotions, just more work. * Laid employees off, that same day received an email from another company that shared the building that there had been a COVID case in their office, didn’t notify ex-employees who also worked in the same building. * No flex, hybrid or remote opportunities. * Lack of work/life balance. They are strict on (limited) PTO, don’t accommodate their employees. Christmas break is only Christmas Day off, etc. * Understaffed departments = guaranteed overtime. This is unpaid. * Annual reviews and subsequent pay raises take months to happen. * Outdated programs and systems, with a lot of physical paperwork. * Lack of communication within company: nobody has any idea what anyone else does within the company. Passive aggressive emails, paperwork going to the wrong person, a lot of petty and unprofessional behavior between departments. * Office mixers are drinks at a bar a couple of blocks away or in the courtyard. Even if you don’t drink, it’s usually mandatory. They don’t seem to do much for interdepartmental relationships, and they’re not worth really coming in early to make up work for them. * ESOP is used as a tool to rally up employees, with no actual monetary payoff for them. * HR is openly disrespected by many department heads. I don’t know if it’s because it is run by a woman, but it’s clear many employees think it’s unnecessary to even have HR. * Lack of diversity. Very outdated boys club environment- female employees are treated like second class citizen, if they’re acknowledged at all. * Unprofessional favoritism/nepotism. Some supervisors openly gossip about other employees. * Company seems more focused on expanding rapidly than taking care of its current employees.