Too much focus on utilisation and not on building people - Anonymous employee GHD Employee Review

3.0
Aug 26, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

A lot of good benefits are given to employees. Co-workers are all professional. The office environment is also professional.

Cons

Uncompetitive salary rates. Recognition and basis for salary adjustment is mostly based on utilisation. As a consulting company the management focuses on the amount of work that the employee can charge to jobs that are billable to client. Even junior employees are forced to look for chargeable jobs when no jobs were given to them by their management. The employees are mostly accountable for their own utilisation. If you can't find a job to work on, you get low utilisation, you won't get recognised as an asset to the company. High utilisation simply means good performance regardless of the capabilities and skills you have. Too much work even for entry level positions. Some work are not even chargeable jobs, hence cannot generate utilisation. Low work-life balance because of too much work.

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

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Cons

Need to be pretty proactive for work. For me who enjoys having work to do, its kind of stressful. You have to take initiative in making your own plan. For someone who thrives in structure and needs a bit of help in planning, this is a struggle. Limited flexibility in doing a hybrid role (even though job description stated it was when I applied) For someone who is 42 mi from the office and with heavy traffic takes 1h 15 min to reach the office, its a struggle. But I understood that my commute time is longer than average when I took the position.

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