The layoff back in July 2024 altered the culture of the company. The C level executives made a joke about it in the days following, which felt really disrespectful. Many were able to see that certain 'redundancies' were hand selected and not based on anything other than personal distaste.
Information is often not passed down properly from leadership to their teams. Many employees didn't know members of their team were impacted until weeks later. There are issues with communication from leadership at all levels in most departments.
Leadership in Talent Acquisition and HR are unfortunately very flawed female leaders and difficult to work for. It's nice to see women in positions of power (good for RWE as a whole), but unfortunate when favoritism runs rampant across the entire department.
HR leadership often thwarts the ideas of their team, silently behind the curtain, so there is no paper trail, and shows little to no championing of their causes and additional work they take on outside of their job description. In fact I once heard this person say 'why do my people need a pat on the back, shouldn't they just do their jobs...' Not the motivating leader you'd hope for. Asked to enter things into tracking systems inaccurately in order to make stats look more appealing to the C-suite.
I can attest to infighting between HR and TA, which is unfortunate and at a loss to the other departments they serve. Heads of HR and heads of TA would often look to get the other in trouble or written up, just trying to get the best of the other. Very immature behavior. Private conversations are often talked about in the open office environment, which was damaging, hurtful, and unnecessary. A lot of whispering which made many feel very uncomfortable.
