Culture requires significant changes - Consultant JMAN Group Employee Review

Cons • Project Management: Projects are often overscoped with unrealistic timelines, leading to significant employee burnout. • Work Culture: The culture does instils fear of performance reviews unintentionally, termination, or missing out on promotions, discouraging open communication. • Promotion and Retention: The promotion system lacks clear standards, and there seems to be favouritism and nepotism. Retention is weak, with hard working employees feeling undervalued and unsupported. The environment is really not for certain individuals , you almost need to be a part of the club to feel okay. Merit is simply not enough despite the founder communicating this concept. • Support System: Managers and people team’s support is often reactionary rather than proactive. There is a pattern of managers overloading associates with work and providing harsh feedback, jeopardising job security. This also affects employees probation periods. Your probation could be as long as 10 - 14 months with no clear communication about your job security. Think twice before moving locations for this company. This might also stem from unrealistic expectations established in the sales process to clients. Frankly displaying the culture needs lots of improvement . • Inclusion and Diversity: Inclusion is superficial, There is simply no diversity. For example not everyone drinks for fun. No IDE training when onboarded. This lack of diversity and inclusion hinders genuine employee engagement and satisfaction. If you do not socially fit, you will have a hard time • Employee Well-being: There does seem to be a significant delayed response for employee well-being on a project level, with instances of employees working excessive hours which lead to health issues requiring prolonged breaks. There is no system to enforce rest periods or support. Unfortunately, by the time help is offered, it is too late (trust is broken) and the help appears to be confusing and desperate.