Great growth opportunities and significant benefits, but at what cost?
Pros
Excellent benefits and compensation, opportunity to develop new skills and experience various parts of the organization, including global assignments. Employees are well-trained, highly capable and often better-positioned for similar assignments when compared with employees from other companies.
Cons
Most employees are overworked, given constant management focus on efficiency and expense reduction. Work-life balance is thus very difficult given resulting high workload and demands. 40-hour work weeks are rare; 60-hour weeks are the norm. Significant focus on process and internal controls, though important to a point, draw attention away from running the business at times and reduce the ability to adapt to an ever-changing business environment.
