LCS values workplace "culture" a lot which is good, however in recent years the workplace culture seems to be more of a requirement for employees than an option. Hybrid schedule used to be two days in the office a week rotating (half monday tuesday, half wednesday thursday, all hybrid workers off on fridays), but was recently updated to also requiring hybrid workers to come in every other friday. This in itself isn't too terrible, but it does leave worry that they are preparing us to all come in 5 days a week again with no hybrid option if a second building is built to house everyone, despite bragging about the "flexibility they offer" with the hybrid schedule in promotional material. Additionally, the company very much preaches that it values employees and doesn't want to overwork them, but some departments are failing to put this into practice and ignoring employee concerns about impossible deadlines. There is concern that the employee-satisfaction priority at LCS is slowly being overridden by "business needs".
Also, we're falling into the AI-generation fad which, while AI can certainly be a useful tool, one of our new AI letter writing tools was introduced in a way that basically said "It will write a letter with all California legal requirements included for you and you don't even have to read it over or edit it" which I cannot even begin to express what a dangerous claim that is.
