Pros
When Eric Hutto was President through March 2022, the company culture was fantastic. I loved working there and was excited about the contributions I was able to provide and the direction the company was heading. Middle Management and individual contributors below the SLT level, post-Eric, really try hard to make it a good place to be, but the current SLT makes it difficult if not impossible. There are career opportunities because people are leaving.
Cons
When Eric left and the CEO, Peter Altabef, became more involved in operations, the culture and stock took a turn for the worse. In a little over a year, the stock went down 84%! Previous layoffs impacted service delivery in a very negative way and the people that stayed paid the price with increased stress, escalations, and time worked. While they had a decrease in having a work/life balance and job satisfaction. There are no longer annual merit increases and the base pay is already below market value. Peter is forcing a return to office policy even if someone was previously hired as remote. Keep in mind, the majority of the workforce has been fully remote when the pandemic started, and we helped tons of other companies go remote successfully. There is no real explanation as to the 'why' of this sudden change in policy. In my opinion, it is to force individuals to quit, so layoffs don't happen and the people leaving can be under the radar and out of the news. If managers don't enforce this, he wants them to leave, too. In India, for example, employees have to work in the office for 10 hours (including lunch) with the majority working the night-shift. It doesn't matter if they have a commute of 2 hours both ways. With 8 hours of sleep, that leaves a whole 2 hours of "free time" (including 2 other meals). So where is the "work/life balance"? It would not surprise me if Unisys is bought out by another company within a year.