My department hemorrhaged half of its talent within a year of its director being replaced with a corporate yes-man. Doc is very intelligent, but difficult to work with, insistent on getting his way with everything, and not open to reasonable suggestions for change on things that he is dead set on. His style guide is a laundry list of personal nit-picks on word choice and making sure certain phrases were a specific color. He also insists on reviewing just about every bit of intellectual property that the company puts out which leads to nasty bottlenecks. This often results in some folks publishing work without consulting him, which causes him to get frustrated and clamp down harder, and the vicious cycle repeats itself. Pay was not competitive with the market. Career advancement wass virtually non-existent. When COVID hit, we were told to take PTO or quit. This is a brave take for a company that employs a small army of former healthcare professionals and researchers. The president at the time (he has since been let go for challenging Doc) sent out a tone-deaf email telling all of us that we'd beat this thing "the old-fashioned way, by washing our hands!" They finally sent us all home and approved remote work within a month after many employees raised hell over this.
