Flexible working environment
Pros
Autonomous and flexible small banking firm. Allows career sabbaticals and flexible start/finish times at work. Well-heeled social club program. Work allows 2 days of paid volunteer leave a year. Lots of staff have been working for most of their working life at the same department. Work colleagues are friendly and provide support. Work pressure intense and gradually building due to aggressive sales focus. Bankwest aims to be the best bank outside of the big four and with a good executive management team (most from CBA) they will definitely reach that goal.
Cons
Prediction is that Commonwealth Bank (CBA) will start to introduce more of their work practices onto the Bankwest employees. So in time to come dont be surprised to find more cut throat measures to streamline work flow process to be more like CBA. There has been numerous restructures within the banking departments but no redundancies yet, more of a wait and see approach.
