Bell Canada Reviews in Vancouver, BC Area

Pros

compensation, opportunity for growth and development

Cons

High workload, impacts work-life balance somewhat

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on your people at ALL levels, this is what will drive the success or failure of the business.

Pros

Great Benefits, Health, pension ( has matching program 6%), RSP (can direct deposit before tax) and stock options ( 2% match). Great people.

Cons

They are down-sizing so the risk of losing a job is high. They have removed all ability to work from home. Even long time teleworkers are being told to come to the office.

Advice to Senior Management

It is backwards to remove the flexibilty to work at home. Keep more staff to not over wokr teh ones you have left.

Pros

Bell is a large company that is fairly stable, and is part of Canada. The company touches all Canadians as we have TV, internet, phone and mobility. The company is focusing on some key objectives, one is the growth in wireless and data which will help the company grow. By working for Bell i feel proud of the accomplishments we have achieved in a very changing telecom market. As a manager i am treated well and i try to treat my staff well. In a company this size it is hard to make every employee happy - however Bell seams to be doing a good job in these tough economic times.

Cons

Bell has a few problems with how and what the company is focused on (however under the direction of George it is getting better). The size of the company is always a problem for some folks. With over 40,000 folks employed – it can sometimes be hard to work in a corporate this big (some days it feels like a dilbert comic with projects that we work on). Another issue is the lack of focus on Western Canada. Working in Vancouver is great, however we are much smaller and the company does not spend and build as much in the West and is limited. The mobility side of the operation was never a focus – however George is focusing more on this now – it should be good to see what happens in the future.

Advice to Senior Management

Bell needs to become more of a unified brand. We have changed our marketing and our senior leadership team and have greatly reduced our head count but more needs to be done in the future. I really feel that we need to focus more on making our self a global brand, and more innovative (similar to Telstra). We might be small in population in Canada - but with the density in Toronto / Calgary / Montreal and Vancouver we could release some better innovate products for both consumer and business. While the wireless network upgrade is great – we need to release innovate products to be ahead of the “curve”. People naturally want something “better” and if we could be that one step ahead of the competition that would grow the market share.

Pros

Benefits and bonus incentives are excellent. The recent cut of additional upper management positions was a major step in a positive direction.

Cons

Micromanagement seems to be increasingly on the rise with each new directive. Time management and work life balance are extremely difficuly to manage at times.

Advice to Senior Management

Allow middle and front line management more freedom to manage their stores as they see they fit in theie own specific market niches. Too many rules, regulations and policies have caused many to question the confidence that the upper management has in their front line management. If there is question as to whether or not all directives would be carried out as set to be company standard, across the board and ensure consistency...then I would suggest perhaps you should take another look at some of the front line managers! Trust in your people, or get rid of the bad eggs! There's policy and then there's micromanagement!