Many managers just care about cranking out the most work from employees regardless of how overloaded they are. it does not matter if the work being demanded is low value or little impact. It's better to check the box.
Managers do not want to question decision that don't make sense, or that need clarification since they are afraid and many are trying to build their personal brand.
Since the merger many teams have been re-orged. New leadership doesn't have much of a clue of the technical aspects of their team, and their perspective is very warped.
Diversity is an issue. Almost all of new leadership is from Kronos and not diverse at all The answer to that from leaderships: is that they were not in the existing org pipeline and needed seniority. Okay so how will you ever break the chain of zero c-level diversity?
Many people from the Ultimate Software brand are very disheartened and our C levels don't want to address it or the slow drip of attrition of talent.