Pros
Colleagues have strong commitment to develop and maintain strong human rights centered work despite the chaotic, and consistently anti-workers rights leadership decision making.
Cons
The senior leadership for OSF has decided to initiate a second arbitrary round of layoffs within 3 years without having a plan, future strategy or vision to guide them. This decision was made after expensive hiring rounds for additional staff to complete work of previously layed-off staff and middle leadership, most times without informing these new hires this was occurring. In addition, senior leadership has no understanding of the work being carried out, the actual staffing required to complete the work. The outcome of this is those hired or remaining having to take on work or two or three staff, while not receiving the title for higher level work being done nor compensation, and being critically evaluated on their ability to carry this additional extremely high work load. This has happened directly to me and is the story of many colleagues at OSF. Morale is very low as staff have given so much to work at OSF due to its progressive programs and support for human rights work. It is also quite painful to see the severe org reputational damage, which affects our work with external colleagues and the work itself. It’s hard to maintain that ours is a rights org when OSF staff rights have been so visibly abused.