Employees don't see their fair share of the growth I mentioned in the pros section. With a corporate structure like Milwaukee's a lot of our growth gets shared out to our sister companies. So, despite our soaring growth, promotion and quality of life increases seems to come far more slowly than the growth would imply. Also, it seems like the executive level is stuck in an old style of management with old values. People only put so much value on "being a part of something big". It sounds mercenary, but younger employees want to be compensated for their time spent at work. Pay is middling, vacation time and other PTO policy is archaic. Our return to work in-person at the office was far sooner than most of my peers that I know in my field. Our health and other insurance is relatively good, but we don't get a lot of other benefits that companies of this size offer. No parental (maternity or paternity) leave, no stock grants, no adoption assistance, commuter benefits that provide the bare minimum to meet the name, etc. A lot (not all, I understand, but a lot) of companies are offering these benefits to hourly retail workers, much less their "valued, salaried employees". Our culture is fast paced and high pressure. Anything that seems to slow things down (even if that might be a good thing, if we need to pump the brakes on something that might be risky) is met with strong resistance. We also don't have a particularly strong culture of diversity and inclusion. Everything from LGBTQ to racial issues to insistence on open floor plan offices, to the way the pandemic was handled has been treated with an "old white guy" frame of mind from (somehow) the whole company. Racist and sexists comments are regularly reported to HR with nothing done about them. It doesn't make it impossible for me (an average white man) to work there, but it's not a good feeling.
