The management thinks the answer to managing a good studio is to run it like a sweatshop, no respect for artists or their time, skillsets or their opinions by producers or management and dirty politics.
Artist flourish under freedoms, not restrictions. The overall ambience is that of a funeral with tonnes of restrictions, the most recent being the audio cut for all system so people can't even listen to music, videos or relax occasionally.
No flexible timing in work. You are expected to report before 9:30 but leave only when the deliverables are complete, even if its 12 in the night.,with no compensation either monetary on in leaves. LOP without question if you are late by even 5 mins.
No source of entertainment, Negative vibes from everyone and being told not to bond much with fellow artists since it eats away at being productive at work,and artist being blamed for all project failures when all deliverable go through multiple iterations through leads, producers and a foreign art director not even in the same timezone.
The studio is OBSESSED with NUMBERS, SPREADSHEETS and EFFICIENCY. Artist are no longer human beings but just manhours on a spreadsheet and an efficiency percentage to the management. If that's the solution then it's time you replace the artist with robots and AI because only they can reach the efficiency bar you have set.
No amount of shouting or unprofessional behavior by senior management and leads will help anyone. Somehow people think this is the norm. This only decreases morale, motivation and loyalty. If the current poor retention rate and loosing good artists in droves over a span of a few months isn't a wake up call then I don't know what is. The production environment is itself negative, which will in turn reflect poorly on the artists. NOT the other way around.
You NEED an IT person, someone trained for the job. And replace the ageing systems, because slow systems leads to productivity loss and hence lower efficiency.
