The hybrid model of work (3 days onsite 2 days WFH) is excessive and totally unwarranted, especially for those teams that have proven to deliver and work just as well, if not better, 100% remotely. No employee engagement was performed to gauge the feelings of those who do WFH and want it to stay that way or whether people wanted to return or what their preferences would even be. It was just minimum 3 days onsite and that’s that. Just seems to be another corporate management policy foisted upon employees so that senior managers have something to do and corporate management feel useful.
Salary is quite poor for such a large multinational and especially when compared to rivals.
The workload can be excessive at times with certain teams under resourced in terms of personnel. A lot of contractors with a high turnover so teams can end up being seriously depleted. No recognition of contractors with offers of staff roles, company happy to keep the status quo. Not offering specialist/expert positions to long term staff either or recognising their contributions.
Seems to be a weird obsession with reducing error, especially the human kind, which is impossible, but is insistent and is putting all teams under serious pressure to come up with ridiculous CAPA’s that don’t actually work and end up with reoccurrences which exacerbate the problem. Driven by Business Excellence who often don’t have a clue about the practicalities about labs or systems.
