They hire someone, then dump them if after they find someone cheaper.
Pros
Things are good for senior management, those with shares...they are untouchable. (By the way, like others mentioned, only about 20% of employees actually have shares in the company). Benefits offered are average to above average, if negotiated fairly.
Cons
BAD MANAGEMENT / LACK OF ETHICS / LACK OF HUMAN VALUES: Unethical business practices by management. They hire someone, then dump them if after they find someone cheaper. They treat employees like an Amazon parcel return - trade it in and try something different/cheaper - taking advantage of high unemployment and desperate people during COVID economic times to hit the reset button on wages. Currently during COVID, they have been on a huge hiring spree, obviously filling positions that were vacated by terminations when COVID began. These are obvious unethical business practices by management. There is a lack of middle management oversight. To get rid of someone, they can easily make up reasons, set people up to fail. Based on the bean counters current actions, everyone's job is up for analysis to cut costs whenever/wherever they can. Its the idea of "hear no evil see no evil, ignore the evil....then there must not be any evil". They make up their own morality as they go. Employees are to be exploited for maximum output is the way they roll. Things they will use to exploit someone is if they know if you are in debt, have a new family/expenses, have a critical family situation, or are a recent immigrant or of visible minority, and then they will use things like that to keep you hostage to unreasonable deadlines, long hours, or else you get the boot. There is an unfortunate situation where employers hire immigrants or people of visible minority because they believe they will work extremely hard and make no requests, wont talk about any issues, so the other employees are forced to work up to that hard standard. Usually, if someone is unethical in one area, they are often unethical in many other areas. Employees walk on egg shells in the office. Employees are just pawns on a chess board. BENEFITS / PAY / DISCRIMINATION: They negotiate in bad faith. They do not offer each employee, as they claim, the "standard benefits package". Some employees, who mostly have seniority, or high level education and/or numerous high profile business connections get full health and pension benefits immediately regardless of years of experience. Others have to wait 3 months for health and 6 months for pension. When you complete your federal/provincial tax credits for for Payroll, they will be looking at your tax credits form and if you have a disability tax credit, they will use it against you. Many companies want to keep their premiums low, so they will weed out those who they know or believe has a disability. If a person has a visible disability or uses any aids, then that makes it easy to discriminate against. And it is therefore almost impossible for them to be caught, because they can use another excuse or give no excuse at all for either not hiring you or letting you go. They fear disability because they don’t want the possibility that you or your family will use their benefits or make any major claims, or have a leave of absence, especially the possibility of an STD or LTD claim. do not disclose your disability. They have no right to ask such questions either in hiring process or after if you have a medical appointment, unless it is something that could impact the safety of you doing the job. WORK LIFE BALANCE: Work life balance applies to those in management or certain education/social status. Management does not care about other employees personal life balance. They will work an employee to point of burnout. They may ask an employee at last moment in day to stay and work until its done, your plans after work/weekend mean nothing. Then they will look for a new employee, and usually one that will work for a cheaper wage. Because they hire those with no family obligations, or those that can be exploited, they expect everyone else to work like a dog too - but not management - they routinely skip out before they put in their 8 hours. Many people do not take their allowed and legislated 10min breaks at say 10am or 3pm because of the unreal deadlines and expectation to work until its out the door. Because morale is low due to these issues, many people do not engage in casual chit chat. Managers do not usually engage in social chit-chat with employees, and when they do, its usually to gain insight into something that can be exploited....so don't talk about politics, local issues, personal issues, etc....walk on those egg shells and keep your head down, and be at your desk, or else you are not working. It creates an unfriendly working/social environment. POOR QC/QA / INEFFICIENCY: Efficiency is not something they value here. Management ignores ways to innovate to improve efficiency, ignores problems with technologies, etc. Most projects are a royal mess. Files on the server are disorganized. And because they suffer from so much employee turn over from a revolving door fire and hire mentality, very few people know where files are saved or which is the correct version. Because they are so cheap, they resort to hiring students, EIT's, and others who may not have experience/education, or others who are not even registered with a professional regulatory body, which makes for project work having lots of mistakes. The newly hired person is expected to take over immediately and just do the work without getting time to learn the project specs or background, get half the information, and don't ask questions. You are expected to work on the problem, but if you create a solution, they inevitably do not value your proactiveness/contribution or may be jealous of your abilities. They have a highly bureaucratic system in place for checking QC/QA, instead of just following the simple tried and true method of comparing work to a set of well done client samples. The time consuming form work system does nothing for real QC results. Because they use several platforms for communications such as email, Teams and phone, project messages are fragmented. (ie people do not respond in kind, someone will send a message in Teams and the other recipient(s) will respond in and email or vice versa). Something said on a phone call is omitted from a record, a good way to set one up for failure. Someone reading a CC of an email may only get a part of the picture of the messaging and draw conclusions, and because management does not work well, miscommunications are common.
