Pros
If you can work your way into a leadership role and establish a decent knowledge base, you will be rewarded. RTO for 2 days isn’t bad. Time will tell if policy doesn’t eventually creep back up. The freedom to work remotely is a good selling point in attracting talent and keeping it. There is a renewed sense of energy under new leadership, although the feeling amongst the revenue-generating roles is that we still need to move faster and with greater clarity. Still, optimism is there.
Cons
There is little collaboration and too much kingdom-building. The layers of leaders tend to manage upwards, leaving front-line managers in the lurch with little to no direction. More restrictions are being put around performance management despite the lack of direction, and new training and rules are handed down weekly to tighten the ropes. It’s highly demotivating.