Pros
Flexible work, but the company recently forced 3 days a week back in office. Workplace business unit forced 5 days a week back in office for some reason. I had the most wonderful team members, but there was so much restructuring most either left or were let go. But the people who work here are for the most part wonderful and deserve better.
Cons
Leadership is falling under the classic corporate idea that if they force people back in office, that “culture” will follow. You can’t force people back into an outdated, cubical filled office and think that they will bring culture. A ping pong table (only at the main office) does not equal culture. Leadership and management are responsible for culture building. It comes from the top down, but here employees are expected to do the heavy lifting. Every effort corporate makes is extremely outdated, like throwing around phrases like “work family” and bribing with pizza parties. Unfortunately, what does trickle down from the top is a culture of fear. Suddath is not a company that takes risks or encourages ingenuity. People are rarely respected for the expertise they bring to the table if the result is any kind of risk. Leadership is rotted by a boys club of men who are afraid to take risks or even ask questions; instead, they cover up with a pompous, know-it-all attitude. The result is a Moving and Storage business that is failing. It is bleeding cash because leadership doesn’t have the vision or resolve to stick with a strategy, and over the past couple of years have driven away, fired or forced out every person who was competent and producing. Failing leadership refuses to look inward - the solution is always to fire or point the finger elsewhere. At Suddath, the buck stops…. over there. Hence the restructuring. It’s an excuse so failing leadership has something to do to prove value. Even when actual data says otherwise, somehow the solution is always to gut the teams and shed the people who are producing revenue. Because of course, those are always the people who are pointing out that something is wrong. Suddath is currently experiencing significant layoffs, which another review accurately pointed out seems to be largely influenced by the costs associated with higher-paid management. Those costs are more than just their salaries. It needs to be asked: what are they actually contributing? What is the real ROI on certain upper management roles? It speaks to the old saying: if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull****, TL:DR Upper management does not care, and is scared of their own shadow to the point of incompetence. Driving the business into the ground so effectively you wonder if it’s on purpose. Don’t expect layoffs to end anytime soon. Other cons: - Bare minimum benefits. Only 2 weeks of parental leave and then 4 weeks short term disability at 40%. - Paying $1000 a month to insure my family with halfway decent coverage. - Absolutely no diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. Zero. They hired an outside firm once, and sent out survey after survey until we begged for the surveys to stop. They did absolutely nothing with it except a brief D, E & I council that was ironically invitation-only and disbanded quickly once people stopped asking questions about it. - Again, burning money by not being able to stick with an effort and actually see it through. - Every woman I know experienced systemic issues, especially around maternity, including significant issues with being able to pump in-office. - I personally knew LGBTQ+ co-workers who were uncomfortable being totally “out” at the office.