Pros
IIJA funding for new projects has re-energized mission driven workforce. People at Amtrak are supportive and nice to work with. People like to see others succeed and grow their careers. Corporate values implemented several years back are sticking and have been the driving force of positive culture change.
Cons
Sometimes extremely slow decision making by senior leaders across the org. While the organization says they like to empower managers and leaders, the organization cycles through empowering managers to make decisions and then reverts back to executives needing to make decisions which can slow the entire process down. Post-COVID work environment has gotten a bit crazy - everyone is in back to back meetings, all meetings run over, and employees need to be careful of burnout. Growing pains to support rapid pace of hiring for IIJA projects and support.