Upper management is eroding the once healthy and positive working environment. BV used to be one of the best firms to work for in the engineering world. However with the way leadership has been “improving culture” has made it into a hostile and toxic working environment.
Professionals no longer feel like they’re “adult professionals” and instead were constantly hounded about the new RTO policies. Individuals violating new policies aren’t targeted, instead they incorporate a group styled punishment as a way to try and turn professionals against one another. They’ve constantly gaslighted professionals at every “town hall” meeting whenever disappointment is described or questioning of the new policies is done. With every consecutive quarter they seem to add in a new limitation or reduction to personal privacy (looking at your tracking beacons).
RTO isn’t the main problem, in fact most people would happily come in from time to time to see their coworkers. It’s the way it’s been handled and the way leadership continues to try and force compliance forcefully. Upper management is suffocating the rest of the company because they want to feel like they have total control. The only people that care about RTO is HR and upper management. Nobody else cares how or where the work gets done….as long as it gets done. Just remember if you choose to work here that you’re nothing more than a number to upper management. (It didn’t always used to feel like this, but it’s become incredibly apparent over the past 4 years).
RTO history:
2020 - BV brags about the professionals ability to “Work in new ways” (working remote or from home) and record profits. Mario states “WFH will not be going away”
2021 - new work profiles are made (In office, Flex, Virtual). Fully in office/comes to office when necessary/ fully remote
2022 - Mario completely goes against his word and implements mandatory RTO. It’s incredibly poorly received and disrespectfully distributed in a mass email during the holidays when many are taking vacation. (Cowardly)
2023 - RTO is forced and rolled out in monthly phases for 1 day in office, to 2 days, and finally to 3 full days. There’s a 10% compliance in this time frame. Que the fragile ego bruises and threatening emails. Compliance hardly increases, employees are still upset and argue. Leadership triples down and blames employees and starts a campaign to tell on professionals not complying.
2024 - RTO isn’t talked about as much and things start to feel more normal again. Until leadership decides to throw a tantrum again because their feelings got hurt and nobody is listening to what they want. Queue professionals quitting to go to other firms because our leaders are adolescent minded babies. New policies are added in for more employee “safety” so they can monitor and track employees more directly. They role out a new supervisor program because nobody is enforcing the RTO policy because the actual workers only care about the work getting done. Now the new supervisors are being told they’ll be held responsible if their direct reports aren’t complying to the policy.
This short history is showing how leadership operates. They don’t care about employees or the morale in the office. It’s been going down hill ever since a certain CEO took over.
There’s been several reviews posted over the years calling out the leadership, and as a campaign to negate it, HR encouraged employees to post positive reviews. Then there’s several other fake positive reviews that apparently can’t see ANY issues in a company with 10K employees….it shouldn’t be hard to filter out fake reviews.
Actual CEO approval was 20% before the campaign, and most employees probably wouldn’t encourage others to apply to the company as it is. Here’s hoping it improves….
