Flexibility, Engaged Senior Leadership, Smart and Caring Employees - Director, Talent Strategy & Enablement Battelle Employee Review

5.0
Oct 18, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- Workplace flexibility, including a 9/80 schedule that many of us are able to take advantage of on a number of Fridays throughout the year. - Benefits that include impacting society, like Always Giving donation matches and investments in metro schools, to uplift the next generation of STEM students. Also, non-profit related benefits that can help with student loans. - I'm fortunate to work directly with the chief officer team, and they (to a person) care about making a positive impact on society and balancing the needs of our employees with the needs of our clients to deliver win-win outcomes. - The org. is regularly benchmarking to balance our non-profit and independent status with employee investments and compelling rates that will keep our business. - Employees are smart, but also welcoming, and we have some nice incentives for innovation that are somewhat unique.

Cons

- The complex structure of Battelle, maintaining independence via our non-profit status, creates cost pressures that we navigate.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jun 4, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

They pay my salary on time.

Cons

-They are run like grad school. They have you compete against your co-workers for funding, they consider rules and laws as simple impediments to be overcome by capricious edicts, they will treat you like a rented mule if you let them. I have come to the conclusion that senior management cares very little about work conditions or employees, only about the bottom line. This experience has significantly changed my opinion of not-for-profit companies. If you are a researcher looking for an open and collaborative environment with shared goals, I suggest you look elsewhere.

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