Philips reviews

Sr leadership out of touch with reality. They don't understand or want to understand the common view. For example, with recent RTO, "I am energized by working with colleagues in office" comments with no allowance to their privileged positions (living close to the office, extremely well paid, spouse taking care of family, etc) as compared to the majority (living far from office due to housing cost, paid less due to junior roles, both parents working, etc). Feeling like I have to be *fake* everyday and act like it's all good when the ship is sinking.

Recently, they have started becoming stricter about employees having to be in the office, to the detriment of their disabled employees. It became more and more difficult for disabled employees to be given permission to be in the office less than 3 days a week, even if their job had been successfully performed remotely. I had managers who stood up for my needs for a few years, which allowed me to do my job. Unfortunately, a new manager joined the team who was outwardly discriminatory and fought tooth and nail to deny my accommodations despite my having successfully done my job almost entirely remotely for 3 years. I made myself sick just to sit in an almost empty office building multiple times a week doing work that could have been done remotely. Her disdain for my disability then bled into her overall treatment of me and I made the choice to leave. She is still at the company. After my departure, my role was posted on LinkedIn with a special message about the role requiring certain levels of physical endurance - effectively stating that the manager did not want to hire another disabled employee. That was ultimately what solidified my decision to write this review.