Pros
- exposure to different people, businesses and systems - training availability and possibility of specialisation - strong knowledge base available in teams
Cons
- improvement activities focus on office based staff when large percentage are home based (and consequently somewhat excluded from initiatives / improvements) - focus on selling products, gaining clients when already operating at capacity (if not beyond) and are a "not for profit" organisation.. this is not reflected in the message for senior management - not enough admin time allowed for assessors, productivity requirements are too high leaving a feeling of "burning out" or just being a cog in a much larger machine! - internal communication is often poor and convoluted due to the large size of the organisation and the fact that much of the work is in isolation of other colleagues. - work life balance is appalling (due in no small part to admin time issue highlighted above and number of days assessment time expected to be delivered per month)