Battelle reviews

While experience for corporate may be different, there is a severe lack of support for contract staff at non-OH locations. Despite repeated feedback to this end, there has been absolutely no attempt to address this and no changes have been made. Battelle has lost a ton of business over the past decade and a huge part of it is due in part that they don't support or put much thought into how to maintain or improve. For a non-profit, they are overly concerned with the bottom line (e.g., sole focus on record revenue), and have exceedingly non-competitive salary across almost all labor categories. They outbid competitors by minimizing rates, while suppressing career growth opportunities or employee rates/benefits. I will note, holistically speaking, that benefits themselves are decent/reasonable, but this comes at the detriment of actual salaries. It is clear from previous All Hands and other gatherings that senior leadership really only cares for (or pays attention to, at least) success at corporate, so it's a shame they cling to contracts that are poorly managed/run to the detriment of its employees,

Toxic upper management, toxic work culture around using sick time (don’t ever), don’t go over your chargeable hours goal at FYE, so work the entire month or last 2 weeks of Sept without entering any time into your timecard. For researchers, you are expected to bring in funding/new projects, but you have to do all of this on your own time. I’ve seen emails where people are literally begging for a charge code to work on a proposal and they get no time to work on 30 page proposals. Upward mobility options for women who have shown years of loyalty to the Lab and their work can also be limiting.