ASM reviews

Current culture that is supported by the HR team and leadership team is toxic. Impacts employee morale and productivity negatively. Can safely say colleagues in my team are highly demotivated while all of us are looking for external opportunities to come our way. There is also a heightened lack of trust due to poor comms, which weakens the trust we have in the CSuite and also the overall vibe in the office in Singapore. Performance management is a joke in ASM. As long as your manager likes you, your job is safe. If you dare to challenge your manager, be prepared for HR disciplinary action to follow shortly after. They keep those they like over the top performers as long as they are “yes” men. Can safely say if ASM were to survey employees, there will be a high proportion who are burnt out and worn down by working here.

We hired too many external Senior Managers and leaders in Asia in the past year. They do not demonstrate any desirable leadership traits nor care to learn about ASM or champion the work they are supposed to do Favoritism and internal politics overshadow collaboration and merit across Asia, especially in the IT team! High turnover in certain teams as a result of poor management practices ( IT, Legal, Finance and HR). I have seen employees being asked to go at short notice for various “underlying reasons”. This creates a toxic atmosphere of being afraid of leaders in Sg and Asia and destroys the “we care” culture we once had. Our Site HR team is incapable of doing anything to help employee grievances, instead telling you that you can quit if unhappy and just blindly putting people on PIP because of “manager feedback” without doing proper due diligence. When the People team is unable to champion culture, and instead are fearful to speak up, how can we even have a voice to Asia or HQ leadership? Decision-making feels top-down with little input from experienced employees. The top dictates, and Singapore site has no choice to accept the bad decisions and pay the price ( usually resulting in layoffs masked as poor culture fit or performance) Pay has been stagnant at mere single digit low increases as our CEO wants to keep budget tight. Profit sharing is a joke these days