Save yourself! - Anonymous employee Community Health Systems Employee Review

No “flex PTO” - you have a PTO bank and a sick bank. You can only use the sick time for doctor’s appointments and actual physical sickness. So if you’re never sick, you just lose that time. Middle management is not aligned with C-suite, causing tension, confusion, and miscommunication. Technology is lacking (paper PTO forms, no interoffice IMing system, etc). They conduct “random” drug testing (like they have all the money in the world laying around to pay for that!) and if you get called, you have to literally drop everything right then and there, miss or be late to meetings, etc. to go do that. What a great message to send to employees — “we don’t actually care about the work you’re doing or its importance, we want to intentionally interrupt your day and productivity.” Every single day feels like you’re on an episode of The Office, except you’re not chuckling at it because now it’s your life. Overall, a very “old school” mindset and culture. Progress, innovation, and creativeness are nonexistent—it’s 2018 and the place is being run like it’s 1994.