Pros
The people that I work with
Cons
Toxic culture. Executive leadership ensuring engagement is bottoming out fast but they refuse to accept responsibility. They have now pushed the responsibility of raising engagement to immediate managers and are punishing us personally through performance rating downgrades if we don’t raise team engagement. When the questions include would you recommend Optus as a great place to work for family and friends of course we are going to say no. Would you risk bringing across a friend or family member when you cannot guarantee they won’t be made redundant in 6 months? They are also pushing staff to be in the office 3 days per week with the days being mandated by CEO and senior management. Managers have also been given new objectives which include ensuring your staff come in on mandated days and proving this by using attendance reports. What a joke this Leadership team is. Am hoping they do not last long. When complaints have been made to executive leaders their response is - well if you don’t like it, go get a job at Telstra. That would explain out dismal engagement score. They have brought the banking mentality with them when they came across. I do however believe there will be a huge improvement in engagement score this year due to the number of people who have stated they will be lying in the company survey to ensure they will not be punished by a reduction to their performance bonuses which happened recently as a result of the last survey.