Short sighted upper-middle management - Anonymous employee Mercer Employee Review

2.0
8 May 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Compensation and benefits were fair. Flexible working arrangements, regarding hours and working from home. Talented co-workers.

Cons

Upper-middle management makes short-sighted decisions without any concern of the details of how to implement these decisions or the long-term impact. A more senior co-worker once told me that if they could fire someone to help the budget today, they would without any concern about how to make budget in a year.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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