Great team but lost respect for CEO - Anonymous employee OCLC Employee Review

3.0
Apr 1, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay, plenty of new technology to work with, and a team that works well together.

Cons

Recently the CEO made it very clear he has no empathy for his employees as he announced return to office. Last fall he held a town meeting and said we will work where we want as long as we stay productive. He advised that’s what sets OCLC apart from places like Google and Chase. Last month he did a complete 180 and held two meetings that basically told his employees that if we are not happy about returning it’s our problem and we can move on if we don’t like it. We are more than capable of being highly productive from home versus sitting in a sea of cubicles and wasting time commuting daily.

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Cons

Upper management is neither good nor trustworthy. To go into details would most likely violate this website's TOS. Trust them not to tell you the truth, trust them to blame you if they can save themselves for another year. Any stories you've heard about a great place to work are based on old data. That company no longer exists. While layoffs have always been a threat, employees are constantly on edge now and having the CEO tell them if they want to stay on they shouldn't make trouble does not help, to say the least If you get hired here, understand that this cannot be a long term destination. Get your experience, have an exit plan, don't get comfortable and fade into mediocrity because that is your future, and that's if you are lucky. I just want to add that everything the other reviews say about the president is true. He absolutely did mock employee responses to an opinion survey at a town hall.

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