The IT budget across the board has been drastically cut and hiring frozen leaving most all IT infrastructure departments limping along and chronically understaffed. Many IT workers are over worked and stressed out with low morale. Engineers and front-line managers are required to fill out forms how you spend each hour of each day. Different departments are like silos. Communication between departments is minimal or non-existent creating lots of "turf wars" and finger pointing between departments making projects difficult to complete often taking many months or years to complete. Upper management and business leaders do not value technology or staff. IT staff and Technology seen as a burden and risk. If possible they would outsource everything (again).
Bottom line is this...Unless you're a VP you need to: Know your "place", follow orders, ignore systemic problems, collect paycheck, and go home. Unum is not a place for creative thinking or innovation. They are highly resistant to change tending to focus more on tradition and process rather than value.
Senior IT leaders change names and restructure (re-org) every 18 months sometimes eliminating jobs. Lots of Paperwork and irrelevant meetings. Every year new paperwork is added. Even though there are many layers of middle managers it would be very unlikely to move up beyond initial front-line manager. Most Front-line managers have been with the company at least 15+ years. There is a strong tendency to look outside for senior IT leaders.
