Acquisition Overload - Beware of Restructuring - Project Engineer Stantec Employee Review

Immense pressure to be at over 80% utilized. If you are not, you are told to take time off (or use vacation) to keep the numbers up. Budgets for projects can be very tight (to stay competitive) so you end up working on your own time (e.g. for free) just to get the job done as they don't want write-offs. Upper management not in the same office as their teams, have no idea of what is actually going on in the local marketplaces - huge disconnect. Constantly buying up smaller firms, every six months there seems to be a "restructuring" (layoffs).