Pros
Some company sponsored activities and events.
Cons
No particular focus on inter-department training or job shadowing. It's purely left to the employee to pursue finding a contact in another department to learn how the departments work and perhaps attempt to interview for a different position. And while this demonstrates resourcefulness and a proactive attitude in those who transfer, it leaves others missing out on what could be an organized opportunity to understand how the company structure works and explore a different career track. There's no time for personal time. The evolution of the use of pto has deteriorated to no longer giving 40 hours at the beginning of each year, but to making one use time only if it has accumulated. This sounds fine, until one has a family emergency and personal time they'd like to have following those events conflict with the amount of pto available at the time. Schedules are purely for customer convenience. As a company we discuss internal customers (employees), but not much is done to make schedules accomodating to a family life, or even allowing for additional course work for post-graduate degrees or other school work for our employees. The confusing schedules combined with the inability of some departments to even allow the use of pto on weekends is disheartening. TD is supposed to be the better bank, but many of us need TD to also be the better bank to work for. Many employees are leaving purely because of scheduling issues that have yet to be resolved, and with the new policies on paid time off, more are thinking of leaving, myself included. Also, with the seemingly closed off departments, there's little interaction between one department and another and even less understanding of one's role in the company. None of these things bode well for employee retention.
