Public Works and Government Services Canada Reviews

Pros

flexible work schedule and stability

Cons

slow turnaround time and slow people

Advice to Senior Management

government reform and policy change

Pros

- Most people are friendly.
- Hours are good.
- An open door to other and better things within the government.
- Nowadays team leaders are really professional and personable.
- Some co-workers are very nice.

Cons

- Competitions are a joke and most are rigged.
- Contracts are preposterous. They hardly make you indeterminate. Your hard work is just to make management look good and instead of motivating their employees they use these impossible clauses on a contract so they are able to lay you off as needed.
- Being laid off and rehired all the time is stressful.
- One of the worst departments to work for in the Federal Government (only loses to Correctional Services)
- Low morale, some co-workers are really two-faced and permanent employees will slack off when terms are doing most of the work.
- Will keep term employees that disrupt the peace, are negative influences and unsettle the work environment with their immaturity and paranoia.
- Union will fight mainly for permanent employees. Term employees are kind fo left in the wind midway into a grieving process.
- Team leaders changed more than 8 times in 2 years: no teamwork due to dissolving of teams several times a year.

Advice to Senior Management

- Make the hard working employees permanent after three contract extensions, within 3 years tops.
- Cancel once and for all ridiculous clauses such as "The Suset Clause"
- Management should try to look less High and Mighty and talk to us, common folks, from time to time.

Pros

-Good salary for the position (comparatively)

Cons

-poor management
-low morale
-'thrown' to work

Advice to Senior Management

communicate with employees and be able to be in contact with them. Needs to be run more effectively.

Pros

Positive colleagues and work environment. People are friendly and laid back.
You will never get rich but lots of opportunities to work in different departments, learn French, etc.
There are often opportunities to go to various professional development workshops and bosses are happy to give you time off to go for them.

Cons

You will never be rich.
Because it is government, things move very slowly.
You have to be careful not to be favouring certain companies so it takes a long time to do anything because it has to be an open process.
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Advice to Senior Management

I haven't worked there long enough to know for sure, i currently have few dealings with them