research administration plagued by inefficiencies and office politics - Anonymous employee UCSF Health Employee Review

2.0
Oct 28, 2015
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Pros

working amongst the nation's brightest, most passionate doctors, researchers, and students. That in itself is inspiring.

Cons

- research administration is highly dysfunctional and inefficient due to lack of transparency, lots of office politics and favoritisms, ineffective mid-level managers... the list can go on. Overall, it's disappointing that such a high ranking medical research institution breeds a culture of mediocracy.

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The people that work at UCSF are some of the most intelligent analysts I've ever worked with in 15 years of Health IT. Most are ex-Epic employees with strong backgrounds in project managament and IT,

Cons

UCSF recently decided to reclassify all remote employees as "Felxible" without their input or permission. As a result, employees must now travel to the office WITHOUT expenses paid. This means that flights, hotels, etc. are NOT reimbursed and are paid by the employee. UCSF has not answered to what problem they are trying to solve with this, and refuses to answer how this action aligns with goals such as sustainability (carbon emissions), equity (women and disabled are more impacted by eliminating remote work), working accommodating (UCSF does not have the physical space for all of the Clinical Systems department to be on site. There is no locked storage or accessible workspaces.), safety (there is no shuttle for UCSF to all locations that have been mentioned for work). UCSF limits employee growth, by eliminating actual promotions with "role based work". In other words, you have to do more work without compensation for it. They have also completely reneged on remote management, meaning that most employees are now at a dead end.

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