- Incredibly poor culture and low morale across the organization—truly the worst in my career. Imagine going to work every day with a group of people who know they are nothing more than a number to the company they work for, are not provided with tools, technologies and resources to do their jobs effectively, and are faced with fledgling, ever-changing, and finger-pointing leadership. You either have to become apathetic to it or get out. It’s toxic, and that’s what it feels like to work at CLEAResult.
- Profit over people is the way of life at CLEAResult—and the organization really makes this known. No decision is made by putting their people first, and employees are nothing more than the utilization rate they can painstakingly squeeze out of you and the unrealistic new business targets you can hit (which by the way, unless you have “business development” in your title, you’ll never see the bonus for new work you bring in the door—that will go to someone else who played no part in the win, but will happily pick up a bonus check for your efforts). The company forces people to juggle unmanageable workloads and works people past the point of burnout if it can save them a few pennies, rather than hiring the right people to support the work at hand.
- Regional teams and service line employees are constantly forced to reinvent the wheel with insufficient resources (whether that’s staff, technology, tools, training, etc.), leading to a frustrating, chaotic work environment where everyone is just trying to make it work and do their best for their clients without sufficient support from the greater organization.
- Annual pay increases are laughable, career development opportunities are few and far between, and they have made it nearly impossible to earn the annual bonus—which also doesn’t sync with your personal contributions or successes, so you really have no way to take ownership of your bonus potential. Top it off with poor vacation policies and average-at-best benefits and it’s easy to see they have no true interest in being an “employer of choice” as they sometime like to say.
- Successes and wins are rarely celebrated and little things like work anniversaries, birthdays, holidays or anything else that’s non-billable are often overlooked. These things seem small—but it all contributes to employees feeling like nothing more than an undervalued cog in the system.
In short: It’s a paycheck, but if you are looking to lend your time and talents to an organization that will value, respect and support you, you can certainly do better for yourself than CLEAResult.
