This is specific to sales. The culture has really turned into a micromanaging culture. Tracking how many hours per week you are on the phone (you're supposed to have 8). They hired quality assurance people to literally call our meetings and see if they were real meetings. The did this under the guise of it being a "post-meeting survey." When these micromanagey initiatives were rolled out, leadership pitched it like it was something that would be helping us. "Now you can see how you are tracking to 8 hours per week you on the phone! It'll be great! We're going to give away Apple Watches for good activity, so we're hiring quality assurance people to call a statistically significant number of your meetings to confirm!" We're not stupid, I can see what is going on.
I felt like I spent literally half my working hours logging various activity into an outdated, difficult to navigate CRM system. I wouldn't have cared if they chose Salesforce, hubspot, oracle, whatever. At least use a CRM system you pay for rather than something that's free.
People who hit quota in the past year or even literally just got back from President's club were put on performance plan because they didn't hit the unrealistic activity metrics. So therefore you just put in fake numbers and hope QA didn't call those meetings.
Compensation. How does someone working in NYC or SF make the same salary as someone in a place like Arizona? Competitors offering much more lucrative comp packages.