Short-sighted policies and decisions from obstinate upper management - Anonymous employee Dassault Systèmes Employee Review

Rigid, "no exceptions" return to office policy for the rank and file workers, with no consideration given to individual roles, responsibilities or team structure. Everyone must be in an office to "collaborate", even if their entire team is on the other side of the country, or distributed around the world, but at the same time there is a "travel freeze" so nobody can travel to actually collaborate with their team in person. Employees within 50 miles of an office must be in the office three days per week, and HR now run badge reports to catch those that don't comply. Exceptions to the distance rule appear to be possible for directors and above though. Compensation is lacking compared to other tech companies. There are no stock options or grants, just an overly complicated stock purchase plan where employees are limited to investing 3.57% of their OTE, and even then the plan isn't available all of the time. The company wants customers to trust its own cloud platform, but refuses to trust cloud based collaboration solutions such as M365/Teams or Slack. Instead we have to use mostly outdated on-premise solutions and a home grown collaboration platform that is clunky, slow, and lacking in features that have been available for many years in other platforms.