Over-zealous internal policies and procedures; ineffective middle to senior management - Anonymous employee SSE Employee Review

(This relates to IT) Flexible working is new - still a great distrust of employees and not enough desk space which isn't addressed properly No rewards, promotion, development. Rife with internal politics, old school middle management aided and abetted by an ineffective senior management layer that floats with ease from position to position, antiquated appraisal system, horrific absence policy; management seem to be able to circumvent open and fair recruitment at will.