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Good Place to Work If You Like Some or 100% Telework - Anonymous employee U.S. General Services Administration Employee Review

3.0
Aug 21, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Ability to work at home some or all of the time.

Cons

Lack of training/processes for teleworkers. Everything is strictly on-the-job training. That would be OK as long as you are not thrown right in to fend for yourself and your mentor/trainer is not busy doing his/her own workload. Too much concentration on making money for GSA instead of making sure the personnel are taken care of. It feels like big corporate America (a money-making machine instead of governance and getting the best deal for everyone involved). Management is too cheap to pay for mileage when you travel outside your zip code. When you have to travel in order to get your ID card or get it updated or return equipment/documents, you have to use your own gas/resources in order to get the items to a drop point. IT support and all the various systems support you need are different phone calls. There's a couple clunky central Help Desks that may take several calls or transfers until you get to the appropriate person/office. Takes too long for GSA to update your personnel files. VERY SLOW. People assigned over you don't have a clue how all the software works and don't have a clue what your modules look like/processes you have to go through unless they have had the same job. If GSA were to concentrate more on hiring from within, that would remedy much of the problem.

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Great work life balance and benefits

Cons

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Pros

More technologically advanced than other government agencies. Much more lean, agile and less bureaucratic than other government agencies. Lots of opportunities to learn about the various types of commercial acquisitions.

Cons

High turnover at the top of the organization in recent years. Confusing communication/lack of explanation regarding re-organization and new work environment. Recent efforts to downsize resulted in extremely high workloads, disorganization, and very poor morale. Depressing to see a once great place to work to be in such disarray. (Many areas have gaps in knowledge and expertise due to mass exodus and reorganization). Top leadership seems out of touch with what GSA does and how it operates on a daily basis which has exacerbated morale problems. Feels “political” vs. the normal apolitical stance every government position I’ve had over the past 15 years I’ve been in the career field.

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