Jacobs and their highly unethical and barely legal employee salary practices. - Senior Solutions Architect Jacobs Employee Review

It’s extremely stressful there. Leadership tends to have bully PM’s who question everything in a harsh accusatory manner, when a project isn’t going well. The worst part is when Covid happened, they came up with a terrible plan to only pay salary exempt employees for billable hours, even if there was only as little as 6 hours a week. You might make enough to cover your health insurance, if you’re lucky, but nothing else. Then they gave everyone the option to switch to “Modified Regular” or go part time. That was just a fancy word that means, you’re no longer allowed to be an exempt salary employee and instead we’re using this as a means to force you to switch to an hourly employee structure when we have billable work. Guess what, nearly all billable work disappeared for half the year. They tried to make it seem like a good thing by saying that we get to spend more time at home with our family, while acting like no one had bills to pay. Those who wouldn’t conform were laid off or furloughed. And in some states, you can’t draw unemployment, unless you’re let go fully and because it was the companies fault. So taking that “Modified Regular” option kept you from being eligible to get unemployment. The executives acted like they were feeling the pain too by taking a 10% pay cut. Then at the end of 2020, (to add insult to injury), they boasted in Linked about how they had record profits that year. Fast forward to 2022 and apparently they’re still practicing this highly unethical and I would think barely legal practice and in some groups there’s still little to no work, so some employees are getting furloughed still. Employees are having to use up their vacation time, until it runs out to get a full payday for 1 - how ever many vacation days that have saved up, until they run out.