You can't trust anything the execs say. We heard all through the pandemic how we could work where we were most productive and were even asked our individual preferences, only to be told we have to be in the office 5 days a week. A lot of senior employees get to stay remote since upper management knows people who have options won't chose to move to a city like Wilmington. If entry or mid level employees leave over it they can just be replaced by graduates from the local college. Pay is well below market, insultingly so for certain roles. Every person I know who has left for other companies did so with substantial pay bumps. We got told our pay is in the upper 90% of the market, which is demonstrably a lie. The company is currently in a legal battle for allegedly attempting to keep wages low in the area. To top it all off, less than 2 weeks after forcing everyone back into the office we get hit with news of a mass layoff first thing in the morning. So people had to get up, go into the office, and be told they're losing their jobs. I'm sure the C Suite considered all other measures before layoffs, including cutting their own multi-million dollars salaries, right?
