Lack of Leadership Accountability, Communication, Vision, Care for Employees
Pros
The employees at the lower levels care about what they do and are eager to assist others to get the job done. Unfortunately they burn out quickly. If you are lucky to get a good manager you will last longer. You can achieve a good work life balance if you do not let project and corporate leaders take advantage of you.
Cons
Leadership for the various practice areas (Health, Economic Growth, DIAS) are not held accountable for their work or decisions. Leadership plays favorites and those select employees are the few who receive adequate raises and bonuses. Employees are routinely offered raises when they leave but rarely do they stay. Corporate was unable to effectively communicate decisions to staff about major decisions. Leadership routinely was unable to explain their reasoning or why they allowed Managers, Directors, and Advisors to continue in roles despite multiple issues. This is part of why the company can not keep an HR Director, but it also could be that one of them had to start their time at Palladium with heading up mass layoffs. The company lacks a real strategic vision, but corporate (Brisbane Office) can not maintain a path for more than a year without changing course. "Strategic Acquisitions" of companies have resulted in the acquired employees quitting or being forced out within two or three years, losing all of the subject matter expertise the company desired at the time. There were three HR Directors in my time there and I spent the first year thinking I was paying into an insurance plan that the company never signed me up for. Finally, this company does not care about its employees. Leadership is always angered when staff leave in waves to other companies and excel (mention employees leaving to DAI and see how leadership responds) but do not do anything to change the culture. Employees are vastly underpaid and immediately get large pay bumps at other companies that reflect their worth. Despite minimal impact from covid-19 related work stoppages, the majority of employees received between nothing and barely meeting a cost of living adjustment in annual raises.
