Promising Non-Profit Doomed by Upper Management and HR - Editorial Specialist Tax Analysts Employee Review

1.0
6 Feb 2020
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Pros

- The people are the best part of this job. Fantastic co-workers. - The pay is slightly better than the standard for this field. - There were so many pros before they started making random and unnecessary changes to the company policy and culture. As of now those two pros are all I can think of.

Cons

- Company policy and hiring process promised eventual telework. When a few of us signed up for it they quickly changed the policy, and even attempted to take away telework days from people who had it for over 15 years. This was done in coordination with a new HR chief who, get this, works from home 3 days out of the week. - Upper management is power hungry and does not listen to constructive criticism. There is one guy that pretty much makes all the decisions in the Editorial Department. He likes to think he's running a corporation instead of a non-profit and treats his employees as such. Makes a 180k+ salary with bonuses, but takes away peoples telework and makes changes to the company policy without actually making those changes in the official documentation. - This place consistently gets "Best Places to Work" awards, but that was before, when they had a culture of laid back, but hard working people. We were allowed to bring our dogs in. Now there's all these confusing rules about who can bring which dogs in when. This all changed when they hired a new HR chief who hates dogs apparently. - Terrible communication between upper management and staff. And when there is it is condescending, belittling language. They pretend to listen and care, then go behind your back to get your in trouble for speaking out. - Right now they gave out a survey, when the survey came back negative they decided to seek out the person who gave negative scores rather than address the issues brought up. - New CEO doesn't seem to care about any of this. Gives out some random awards, dinky gifts, and stale holiday parties, but rarely actually gets involved with the lower echelon of employees. - Doesn't take care of veteran employees who helped build departments in the company. In on specific example this was due to a move, where someone needed a better work-life balance situation, which they give to their tax lawyers and reporters, but scoffed at the idea of giving it to this employee forcing her to quit, ending a 20+ year career that helped earn the company millions in profit. This was also partly due to one of the worst cases of a manager in that departments history, who they sided with until the entire department quit. Then they removed that manager. - Consistently changing HR teams. HR acts like they're on your side, but really can't do anything because the HR chief is friends with upper management. There's more, but I think you get the point.

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Tax Analysts Response
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Thank you for taking the time to leave this review. We’re proud of our people and team-oriented environment and are glad that you experienced that. Tax Analysts’ core values include respect for the individual, integrity, and work-life integration and we are proud to share our recognition as a Washington Post Top Workplace 2019, 2020 and Top Workplace USA 2021. Regarding the HR team, in early 2018 there was turnover – however a strong and robust team has consistently been in place since the end of 2018 and continues to thrive. There may be a misunderstanding about the Chief HR Officer – at the time of this review, she was a part-time employee who worked for TA two days a week and has since moved to three days a week. We pride ourselves on being flexible with work arrangements that benefit both the company and our employees. We have allowed telework with each department manager making their own individual call on what works for their team. Telework agreements are reviewed annually by the department head. Since March 2020, due to the pandemic, all employees have had the option to telework, and will through at least March 2021. Dogs in the office are a big part of TA’s relaxed culture, we allow dogs and will continue to do so! We celebrated National Dog Day in the office with a special event. Dogs interact differently with their environments, and too many dogs in limited space created an issue which resulted in guidelines to keep the work space safe and business-friendly for the employees and the dogs. Regarding the employee surveys – we responded to a similar concern in the answer to a review given on September 23. Thank you for your feedback.

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