Cold & Stifling - Anonymous employee System C Employee Review

There has been an awful lot of change at System C in a relatively short period of time. Whilst this will have some market positioning advantages, the human cost has been significant. There have been redundancies and lots of resignations. The Company is losing lots of very good people, but the saddest aspect of this is that it really doesn't feel as though the Leadership care much for who they're losing and the rate at which they're losing them. People attempting to leave have felt intimated by management and HR. People being made redundant have been swiftly moved on without so much of a gesture of thanks. Redundancies have been followed up, sometimes within a few days, with a jolly company wide 'nothing to see here' email update from the CEO. So many people, colleagues and friends nonchalantly dismissed. This is just my perception. Change is never an easy thing, and the CEO has at least admitted to that. However I don't think it has been done with the workforce in mind here. There is a continual hand wringing in management about teams, team structures, who should sit where, time recording, tooling, etc. The resulting perception is one of chaos with folks being moved between teams on a regular basis, like sheep being moved between pens. Line Managers regularly changed. Process changes were implemented and would often be U-Turned. Strategy, delivered to managers as a vague notion, would be filtered down to teams with different interpretations. I sometimes felt that everyone was simply scurrying around trying to calculate what it was the leadership wanted without any specific objectives. The end result, as an employee, felt chaotic. The Leadership would challenge this of course, but the clear lack of empathy from the top would make it difficult for them to relate to these sentiments. Pay and benefits have remained fairly flat at System C. Indeed it is my experience that the salaries offered are lower than the average market rate for various positions. The benefits package is fairly standard. And what of career progression at System C? It was my experience that this was stifled by certain Managers wishing to preserve their own nest. Internal vacancies were not managed in a consistent or transparent way which pretty much muffled any aspiration of natural career progression. Before internal vacancies came up, there had often already been conversations with potential candidates and a decision had been made. It is such a shame that the upheaval and new leadership team have caused so much unrest at System C. I can absolutely see why they're making changes, but instead of going about it in a measure way, with people at the forefront of their considerations, they've taken a big old mallet and started wildly swinging it around with no sense of the impact this has on people's lives.