Lets Be Realistic - Anonymous employee NightOwl Global Employee Review

Dear Concerned Employee: Thank you for your feedback. It is helpful. To clarify some of your comments and perhaps offer opportunities for greater involvement: 1. NightOwl does have a formal budgeting process. The process spans weeks of planning in the early fall each year. This process culminates in a week long teams based strategic planning session. If you would like to participate in this process, please let your director know about your desire. Engaged parties are always welcome 2. NightOwl moved about a year ago after 24 years. The new facility has been a welcome opportunity to roll out new collaboration technologies and improved workstations in the new environment. These additions are not part of NightOwl’s operating budget and do not impact any budget internal to the company. They are meant to improve engagement and opportunity to collaborate with co-workers and improve employee experience. 3. New technology deployments at NightOwl are taken very seriously and go through an arduous and expensive sandboxing process. This process relates to all new technology, and all technology upgrades. That being said, technology can have bugs, and sometimes bugs need to be worked out. If you would like to be more involved in this process, please reach out to your direct manager. 4. Teams can get overloaded. If you sense that co-workers are stressed or new assets are required to make your team run more smoothly and prevent fatigue, please reach out to your director. Executive management needs to know about team fatigue and resource scarcity. The company is growing fast and planning for new hires is important. 5. The desire for a 401k has been heard. Offering a 401k requires a certain level of participation from the company employees. In the past we had a plan, however, there was not enough interest in participation to keep it in place when markets became volatile. Currently, based on recent polling the interest has returned. Do know that it requires participation from a significant number of employees or the plan cannot meet the necessary threshold requirements. We hope to have a plan rolled out for 2018. This is something desired by all, including upper management. We are a quickly growing company and take what we do very seriously. There is ample room to grow and get involved if you are interested and engaged. Your comments are meaningful and it seems you are an engaged employee. We would like to see someone like you reach out for a more significant engagement with company leadership.