Problems at the top - Anonymous employee Forrester Employee Review

Leadership has cut itself off from the rest of the company and is making decisions that negatively impact employees without consideration or empathy. The “Anywhere Work” policy is now being recast as “an experiment” and employees were given only a couple of weeks notice to return to the office every Tuesday and Wednesday, just days after announcing a layoff. The new hybrid policy is creating stress and hardships, but if you live within 45 miles of an office (yes, even in the Boston, New York, or Washington, DC areas!), you’re expected to come in regardless of how bad your commute is. Some of the more entry-level folks can’t afford office parking, particularly since all raises and promotions have been frozen until at least the middle of the year. We’re all going to take a pay cut because of hybrid, thanks to the commute, but instead of providing relief we’ve been told to just deal with it. We were praised for our productivity at this month’s company meeting, completely ignoring that it’s Anywhere Work that’s enabling us to be productive. We write all this research on employee experience, but we clearly don’t follow it.