American Electric Power reviews

Work-life balance is becoming a thing of the past. Mandatory return-to-office policies are being enforced soon—even when our teams are spread across the country. We’re expected to show up just to sit in virtual meetings all day. It doesn’t feel like collaboration; it feels like control. Leadership was “flattened,” but in reality, they cut out the supervisors—the ones who actually led. What’s left are mostly figureheads and bosses, not leaders. After a year or so of nonstop change, it’s hard to believe the company has a clear direction. And even harder to trust the people steering the ship.

Over the last 12 months we have had major shifts in our structure, number of team members, and benefits. We have had our opportunity for growth/moving up in the company taken from us with a massive reduction in management positions (to reduce overhead) and they have completely removed positions and the people in those positions. They just did away with a lot of people's jobs and spread the work onto others that were already overburdened. We have also had a massive reduction in manpower across the company with "voluntary layoffs" (some of which were not voluntary) and have therefore been asked to do more with less. We have now been asked to increase our workloads yet again with no discussion on hiring on additional help to assist with the additional demand. And lastly THE ICING ON THE CAKE for most of the employees here and why we WILL be leaving in mass and looking for employment elsewhere: We are being stripped of our ability to work Remote or Hybrid even if it is in our Employee Agreements and Employee Contracts. We already receive raises well below the inflation rate and are paid less than the median for our area. We are already taking pay cuts every year as the cost of living increases faster than our compensation. This flexable benefit is one of the main factors of why a lot of employees stay with the company while being underpaid. We have employees that will now be forced to take on thousands of dollars of additional monthly expenses in Childcare, commute, etc. and the company has stated they will not be compensating employee's for the impact of their decision on it's employees. This decision is going to cost employees a great deal of their income in an economy that we are already barely surviving in. And it is a breach to our employee agreements. It will cost the company more to lose and replace us. And this will be very bad to have so many new employees running positions that take 1-3 years to learn. Don't apply here. We used to be heard and respected here. So many of us aspired to work here for years. Now it is a top-down Oligarchy take over with the new CEO.