Impact Networking Reviews

First, give lots of lip service to "culture" and how you love your employees then do everything you can to make it harder for them to work. Become even more inflexible about remote work. Now, clamp down on people being at work by 8 am and staying until exactly 5. Start writing people up who arrive late. Also, take away their sick days and stop your 401k match. You're now on our way to losing it all. Second, hire some moron who lives in Canada while telling everyone "the company has no work from home policy." Pretend this hypocrisy does not exist. Whenever it's brought up, fire the person who did so. Also, try not to laugh as the moron from Canada tries to elicit sympathy about having to spend one lousy week a month away from how grown children. Sir, some people pay good money to spend a week in Chicago. Third, hire a Canadian moron who does not know what anyone in his company does, diminishes everything everyone does, has never created anything of substance in his life, talks only in sports and Tom Brady metaphors, and likely has never ready anything beyond the first few sentences of a Sports Illustrated article. Mr. Dyck, you're a child. Go away. Fourth, hire a great team, watch as the company slowly turns around like the opposite of the Titanic trying to avoid the iceberg. Brag at all of the meetings how the Net Promoter Scores are now "world class." Brag at an all company meeting how you've cut down on turnover. Then, instead of doing anything you can to keep that team happy, clamp down and cause EVERYONE to start looking for jobs elsewhere. Fifth, show no appreciation to those who maybe have to travel far in brutal Chicago traffic. Refuse to admit that there is no actual reason to be against hybrid or work from home. Say stupid HR-like things like "Impact has always worked best in a team environment." Try to say the work spaces and offices are built for productivity with a straight face. Pretend you don't notice that some of the most productive people in the company are only so productive when they find quiet isolated places within the building to work. Ignore progress. Stick to the old ways while pretending to be a progressive company. Die on a very, very stupid hill and watch as everyone leaves for other companies...then try to keep those high net promoter scores when there are only 4 people left.

Impact Networking is a huge company made up multiple managed service divisions including: Impact Managed Marketing (IMM), IT & Cloud Services, Cybersecurity (DOT Security), and Printing Equipment Services. This massive company is unguided and running at full speed, so it is no surprise that people constantly jump ship. If there was ever a depressing satire of a pre-millennium corporate workplace, it would tell the story of Impact Networking. Case in point: sales and the CEO are popping champagne on the slopes of Aspen on a company sponsored trip, while constantly saying there is no money for raises. Nepotism runs rampart across the company, at all levels, despite basic experience or expertise, solidifying the type of culture and business practices Impact Networking is built upon. Impact Managed Marketing (IMM) is its most unethically run division and if you are a creative, avoid at all costs. It was a design agency (ES99) that was restructured to deliver managed marketing services, yet no one is trained in marketing, this includes some management. Basic marketing practices are overlooked and even ignored to cut costs, while still charging clients for faux deliverables. The saving grace of this organization is the great people in the trenches. The creative department has the staff worthy of any major agency with the work to match, but they are the most under appreciated and overlooked group in the company. They are often doing the work of other departments, including account management and research, but only given credit for that work when assigning blame if something goes wrong, yet never acknowledging them when it goes right, as it often does. Finally, it is important to mention that all positions are on-site, 5 days a week, from 8am-5pm. This was the policy even through the height of the pandemic, while people were getting sick, and it is still actively enforced with absolutely no flexibility. This policy sums up unadaptable nature of the company and its leaders. They do reiterate that this is important for culture, while their employees are constantly burning out beyond reason. But it’s okay because they have espresso machines, a keg, happy hours, and a cool office, right?