The wrong person runs the place. - Sustainability Personnel Business for Sustainable Development Employee Review

The best things about working in this industry and in this specific organization are the flexibility of your schedule, you get paid by output and deliverables not by the hour (although we must be available/reachable within the PH business office hours), you meet wonderful people from different walks of life plus you get to learn from them (avoid the toxic ones!), great workplace to connect with sustainability practitioners and network with like-minded organizations, you'll get the perks of learning from both private and public sector during various engagements and projects (you get to attend events for free!!) and lastly you get to contribute to the SDGs one way or another.

You will not be spoon fed here, you need to be proactive and take initiatives to achieve your targets and goals per department. Depending on your superior, you have to be adaptable to navigate yourself in. You'll be given certain tasks that you may not know about or understand so you'll be on your own basically but if you have team members and a BRILLIANT manager then it's all good ;) (as I said, there are toxic ones), and lastly the change of management was not well executed and so employees had a hard time with the adjustment/turnover.

You get to manage your own time with "work from home". Officemates are fun to be with. You get to meet high-level clients from local conglomerates.

Poor management (especially with the executive director). The ED sometimes doesn't have or know the boundaries of work and life as he's okay with meeting with his people until the late hours of the night. He also has favoritism for several people, and even tolerates that one employee who does not deliver outputs on time. He is very picky and is a micromanager, with no trust in employees he doesn't like even if they're good at their job. The organization also fails to hire an adequate amount of admin and accounting staff to carry out admin and accounting-related tasks, which leaves project managers to perform admin-related stuff as well.