Pros
1. Physically easy, mostly indoor work. 2. 3% employer matched RRSP contributions, and extended healthcare benefits. 3. Lots of opportunity to advance 4. Onboarding is organized, lots of videos and online modules for new staff 5. Flexible work arrangements (work from home) 6. Sharepoint site is organized and easy to navigate
Cons
1. Aggressive, manipulative sales culture - Employees are encouraged to constantly badger existing clients to award more work, and employee advancement and compensation is predicated on this behavior. Dishonesty is rewarded, in terms of stretching the truth on what services Colliers Project Leaders can actually perform. This creates plenty of stress for the employees that are then handed contract work they are not experienced with or qualified to perform. 2. Employees are not compensated for overtime, although the expectation is that everyone is working it on a regular basis. 3. >20% employee turnover rate means that knowledge transfer is a constant problem - details are lost, clients are unhappy, workers are thrown into jobs mid-project with insufficient information to complete work 4. "Always available" company culture makes it hard for workers to set boundaries and maintain work/life balance 5. Structure for delivering projects is to push work to junior employees as much as possible, with very limited senior involvement. As expected, this leads to poor-quality deliverables, and unhappy clients. 6. Skilled senior management is largely absent - talented senior leadership does not stick around long. Management staff is largely inexperienced, and expected to uphold the current culture, with a focus on maximizing personal compensation through the bonus structure, rather than quality of services or employee satisfaction. This has allowed some deeply unqualified people to attain senior management positions within the company, with a focus almost exclusively on sales. 7. Health & Safety system is not up to standard with industry competitors - mostly designed for office workers, it does not offer appropriate protections for employees doing anything other than low-risk work. 8. Compensation is low. Much fanfare around the company bonus structure, but in reality bonuses are not going to cover the amount of unpaid overtime you're expected to work, and are largely based on metrics outside of the employee's control
