Pros

Good pay, Good benefits, Good business

Cons

Asia Pac management is more Asia specific, Less caring about the person, more about getting the work done. More about selling yourself, less about getting recognized. More about individualism, less about team work. More about connections, less about ability. More about blame, less about self reflection. Outsourcing strategy is managed poorly and wildly. Wasted money to wring out benefits of cost cutting by hiring low cost and many times less experienced contractors, but adding pressure to experienced employees who have been with the firm longer to perform, while cutting benefits like training budget necessary to keep people sharp and unmeasurable but important benefit of keeping employees happier.

Advice to Senior Management

Similar to another comment of a technology company employee, stop trying to make good technical people managers.They make good project/work managers rather than people managers. Employ more people managers who can boost morale, stand up for their team and make the sum of the parts greater than the whole. The reason good engineers want to be managers is manager as a job is always glorified and obviously pays better. Come up with better IT strategy. Stop hiring CTO's who come, talks a good talk, cost cut, take credit and leave, while the foundation is crumbling from all the cheap labor. Cost cutting is good but much of what was done is short sighted. We should have them sign claw back clauses like what is happening on wall street right now. But in IT it would be hard to measure performance as numbers can be manipulated(I know), rather than measures of profit and loss on the business side that are harder to hide.