Pros
The people working the front lines are the most amazing people. Smart, creative, funny, dazzling people. They are some of the best people you'll ever meet, but it;s too bad they are wasting their time at a company that does not care, diminishes what they do, and is driving them out day by day with clamping down on archaic rules and taking away benefits. To all of those in creative, account and other areas looking for new jobs...there are much better places that don't just pay lip-service to corporate culture and taking care of employees, while doing all they can to make things harder for people.
Cons
First, give lots of lip service to "culture" and how you love your employees then do everything you can to make it harder for them to work. Become even more inflexible about remote work. Now, clamp down on people being at work by 8 am and staying until exactly 5. Start writing people up who arrive late. Also, take away their sick days and stop your 401k match. You're now on our way to losing it all. Second, hire some moron who lives in Canada while telling everyone "the company has no work from home policy." Pretend this hypocrisy does not exist. Whenever it's brought up, fire the person who did so. Also, try not to laugh as the moron from Canada tries to elicit sympathy about having to spend one lousy week a month away from how grown children. Sir, some people pay good money to spend a week in Chicago. Third, hire a Canadian moron who does not know what anyone in his company does, diminishes everything everyone does, has never created anything of substance in his life, talks only in sports and Tom Brady metaphors, and likely has never ready anything beyond the first few sentences of a Sports Illustrated article. Mr. Dyck, you're a child. Go away. Fourth, hire a great team, watch as the company slowly turns around like the opposite of the Titanic trying to avoid the iceberg. Brag at all of the meetings how the Net Promoter Scores are now "world class." Brag at an all company meeting how you've cut down on turnover. Then, instead of doing anything you can to keep that team happy, clamp down and cause EVERYONE to start looking for jobs elsewhere. Fifth, show no appreciation to those who maybe have to travel far in brutal Chicago traffic. Refuse to admit that there is no actual reason to be against hybrid or work from home. Say stupid HR-like things like "Impact has always worked best in a team environment." Try to say the work spaces and offices are built for productivity with a straight face. Pretend you don't notice that some of the most productive people in the company are only so productive when they find quiet isolated places within the building to work. Ignore progress. Stick to the old ways while pretending to be a progressive company. Die on a very, very stupid hill and watch as everyone leaves for other companies...then try to keep those high net promoter scores when there are only 4 people left.
