How to Alienate Employees and Lose Good People - A Case Study - Digital Multimedia Specialist Ivanti Employee Review

Employees are treated like cogs in a machine. When C-suite leadership snapped their fingers, we were all expected to jump and conform to some new initiative without prior explanation of need, purpose or benefit. Established teams were dissolved and absorbed into new teams to fit the whims of leadership. Even C level leaders were replaceable. So much turnover. I was hired to do a certain job but ended up stuck doing almost nothing because my team was absorbed into a new group with different leadership, structures, and goals. If I'd stayed I would have been forced to do a completely different job I wasn't qualified for and had no desire to do. Was constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop. More and more contractors were brought on board instead of full-time employees. Good people either left or were let go in favor of less expensive contract workers. Morale, to put it mildly, was low. Priorities shifted on a daily basis. Projects that were high priority one week got pushed aside in favor of putting out fires and saving face. There was a lot of reshuffling with, again, little explanation. Felt like nothing was actually getting done. Leadership refused to be transparent regarding changes and perpetuated an old-school, authoritarian culture with very little room for collaboration, disagreement, or team building. Felt like they were saying all the textbook appropriate things while simultaneously working to squeeze employees into a generic, premeditated model.