Institute for Building Technology and Safety reviews

Many projects have ended, which caused the company to let people go and pile more work on top of their already overworked staff. This caused many people to find other opportunities and instead of hiring replacements, IBTS continues to pile on the work of two, three, four people on top of one person with no additional pay. Then management sends out emails saying that they're removing a floating holiday from employees to save money, but that they should be happy because they had considered reducing their health care benefits. Oh wow, TOO KIND! Benefits are okay (though not if they continue to remove them as a cost-saving method), but there is no semblance of a culture or sense of community at IBTS. Everyone is just waiting to find their next job. If being overworked and underpaid wasn't enough, though, the executive team is one of the worst I've ever seen. Verbally abusive to its staff. Unappreciative. Harassment cases galore. And then they wonder why anyone would leave. Hmm...

Some folks were simply overwhelmed with taking on several roles due to various layoffs and restructuring. Sometimes it felt like departments were on their own islands rather than working cohesively and more strategically for the greater good of the overall organization. There was a fair amount of turnover and organizational changes during my time there which was a bit of a challenge, and leadership wasn’t very involved with the support staff during throughout the restructuring and changes.