No longer a startup- start investing in current employees - Anonymous employee Zayo Employee Review

Thanks for comments on ethical culture and environment, good intentions, improving worklife balance, and progressive stance. Though we are making progress, we have a ways to go in bolstering our culture, as we are still bridging the gap between being a startup in 2007 to a >$10B enterprise value public company. Your con begins with a blanket statement: “The company doesn’t invest in employees that have already established themselves in the organization”. This statement hurts the credibility of the rest of your post, because it undermines all the good work that does take place within Zayo in this area, evidenced by dozens and hundreds of your colleagues advancing their careers within Zzyo. Employees of all “shapes and sizes” are advancing, including ones that match the profiles in your post. I agree with you on your aspirational statements. For example: “upper management needs to learn about employees and foster their existing talent.” This is absolutely correct. So is “Promote from within” and “This shouldn’t be a company where you simply ‘have to know someone’ in order to get a better position”. I also agree with employees wo are good at their job should not be held back from other opportunities. Where we differ is your insinuation that a certain class of employees are being systematically shortchanged because they are non-diverse, valuable at their jobs, or experienced. Please don’t misunderstand. I don’t doubt that we need to constantly improve in identifying talent and fostering advancement, as this is a fundamentally important role of senior management. I believe we are good at this now, and should strive to become even better. Some of what you write is perhaps an individual discussion. Why are you slotted in the TC Group you are in as opposed to a higher TC Group? As you know, the TC Group signifies your compensation and your peer group. If you think you are mis-slotted, you can raise this with your management or with PCB. I encourage you to do this. Diversity is a tricky topic. Having a diverse and inclusive organization is key to fully realizing our long term potential, and to being an organization that thrives over the long run. I believe this, and I expect us to make progress on diversity and inclusion. Perhaps this doesn’t fit with your view of an appropriate mandate, but it is something we look for all employees to embrace. RE: Healthcare. We did change to a self insured program and simplified the range of options. This helped some and hurt others, but had a net positive effect overall. Healthcare costs are going up, because of Obamacare and because medicine is becoming more advanced and powerful. Zayo absorbs some of the increases, but some hit employees. We do want our benefit program in aggregate to continue to improve.