New Focus on "Hard Edge" is very transparent to staff and clientele - Anonymous employee Irvine Company Employee Review

2.0
Jan 31, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Class A+ buildings and master planned environment. Benefit package was great pre-2012. Name within the industry is well-respected.

Cons

Everything focused on Revenue in the past year to the sacrifice of both employee culture and customer experience. Extreme focus on the bottom line with no negotiations. Employees are mostly scared to speak up and are mostly miserable behind closed doors ; water-cooler talk is all negative. Recent dismissal of President of apartments division was fluffed over with pre-written speeches from VP's explaining he moved on to better pastures but was indeed let go because he was proud of his "soft edge" culture. Upper management thinks employees are blind or unintelligent by making crazy, un-needed changes just to "shake things up" ( ie--expecting managers to write up people who don't obtain Zip Codes from clients or don't finish a work order within the allotted time). Overall, company seems to be headed for a sale, IPO structure, or some big event because owner is reaching retirement and a new plan is set in place. Employees are still kept in the dark.

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