Work-Life Balance: If you don't have much of a life outside of work, this is the place for you! Remote and hybrid working options were recently revoked. Workers must be in the office 4x weekly. In certain metropolitan areas, this will mean a long commute for many workers, but it seems they could care less. The reasons supplied from on high include words like "collaboration" and phrases like "powered by people". Interesting to enforce the return to office mandate when so many QTS customers and teammates are spread out nationally and globally. So, we don't collaborate much with our teams in person. Also, imagine your conference calls in your cube, while others are doing the same. The customers and teammates on the other end can hear the background noise, which makes for an apologetic, distracting and sub-professional experience. Lastly, can employees feel "powered" to start meetings before 9 or linger on in the office after 5 PM. I could see this impacting morale, productivity as well as deadlines. Volunteerism: Company supports this and provides 3 paid days of volunteer time. They also have a sabbatical for employees after their 5 or 10 year anniversaries. However, you must have 40+ hours of volunteer time documented. I personally believe where, and how you volunteer after the paid volunteer time is your business and God's. I also believe the sabbatical should be granted based on work performance, and the aforementioned anniversary milestones. Same for their annual awards dinner. Employees are nominated based on exemplary work performance but this is nullified if you have no volunteer hours on record. Race: There is definitely a trend here. If you aren't a white male, or a white male with a nuclear military background moving up is tough. But if you are white, promotions are handed out like candy on Halloween. Moving up is so hard for people of color that I believe I can even count the number of indigenous employees holding executive positions on one hand. It seems Leadership is afraid of the DE&I initiatives, or just plain racist. Let me point out that this company is owned by Blackstone and if you head over to their employee site, they have an entire section devoted to equity and inclusion. I thought this would initiate an attitude change at QTS, but nope... Career Pathing/Upward Mobility: It is my understanding this is being worked on by management so that paths upward for individual contributors might be more clearly defined. Time will tell. If you're not already employed here, I would suggest looking elsewhere.
