POSSIBLE Reviews

- Deteriorating Culture Before the change in management, POSSIBLE understood the value of culture in an organization. The organization is not known for top tier remuneration packages, but retained employees by building an amazing culture and bestowing benefits in various ways such as monthly team lunches, POSSIBLE days (additional days off preceding or following public holidays), learning lunches and etc. which enabled the growth of individuals within the company and built strong inter-team relations and communication. Since the change, the organizational culture has deteriorated and become extremely toxic, regressing to functionally silo-ed structures making team work extremely difficult. Blame is readily dished out and parties thrown under buses for minor oversights or failures as opposed to acknowledging issues, learning from mistakes and grooming team members to improve. Individual failures may result in publicly embarrassing tirades and failure to reach consensus on projects are solved by pulling rank and alliances. Off-in-lieu benefits as recompense for long work hours are no longer standardized across the office, and removed for some teams, thereby disincentivizing employees from working late; where in principle the intention is good, it is poorly executed and given exclusively to certain parties under conditions of silence. - Poor management As a reflection of the new culture, POSSIBLE as a global entity has not been able to put in place a successful masterplan in fostering intercompany communications and collaboration even within the management. Where weekly regional meetings used to be conducted to understand how each market is fairing, offices are now increasingly distant and do not have full visibility of each other's activities. - Nepotism and double standards The new APAC management is extremely nepotistic having replaced the entire senior and multiple middle management with their own and have shown errant favoritism through unmerited promotions of their own clique. News about employees leaving are kept hushed until the last week, leaving little time for handovers and the replacement scrambling to onboard. The APAC CEO has also shown little success in his ability to revive the declining business, as well as deferring key decisions to his lieutenants who are incapable of satiating key clients and accounts that have been with the company for close to a decade. - Results? Being a digital agency built on the foundation of measurable results, evolving into the mantra and a book "Does it work?" it is sad to see that this is no longer if not seldom applied to the work done and worse yet to the organization itself. Aesthetics and swag are increasingly valued over results that matter to the client and their customers. It is not surprising that there is an exodus of talented people leaving for greener pastures.

Ever since the management changed, Possible is also radically changing. Before the management changed, we used to be working for each other and fight for one another as a cohesive unit. Nowadays it is always finger pointing and if you screw up, you will not be treated very well. It is a very toxic environment. Humans are inherently flawed but to drag the old management through the mud only demonstrates the low level of professionalism and ethics. It's only business. Cliques are formed with their own group of people. Some even boasted that they have worked with the new CEO for a long time and knows the things he wants. This can estrange other members of the company. There is too much segregation in the company. The management that are close to the CEO do not even attempt to gel the team together but only choosing the members they want to be in their team. It is very morale draining if you see certain colleagues being treated badly. This would cause members of the company not being able to be open and transparent about how they feel in the company. I can see the CEO is trying hard to be transparent but management can get very personal. Business should be kept strictly business but in the current situation, everyone is not being treated very fairly. Only certain individuals that belong to their clique get certain promotions and benefits.