IRS – “Great place to start or end your career.”

Pros

Work life balance. We only work 40 hours, have the opportunity to work from home (part of the time or on a full time basis), vacation and sick leave is granted and are seperate amounts (6 hours bi-weekly for vacation, 4 hours bi-weekly for sick leave), rarely is time off denied except in exigent circumstances which I have never seen come up. Good pay for the amount of time that is needed to be on the job.

Cons

Limitations on outside work. They have policies not allowing you to work in similar industries (i.e. preparing taxes, financial planning, accounting work, etc.). The government also does not allow you to run in local politics which may only impact a handful of people but does matter to me.

Advice to Senior Management

Maintain/Start a retention and succesion planning program. As a great majority of people are eligble to retire in the next 10 years there needs to be a great succession plan in order to keep the great things going great that has been placed in service already.