Turbulent management changes create an unstable workplace - Anonymous employee Aristocrat Employee Review

Significant management changes have disrupted the product vision, workplace environment, and five-year roadmap, and have made the workplace intolerable. What was previously a position of high job security is now unstable. Senior leadership stated in a global town hall an intention to reduce headcount and replace roles with AI, and requested support for employee terminations. Recent policy changes prioritize employee exits or cost reductions that negatively affect staff. The global HR head said in a company-wide meeting that she does not care about people’s opinions on many matters and instructed employees to stop providing feedback on those topics in HR-run internal surveys. Upper management is enforcing inter-team competition in a manner that reduces productivity and is creating a degrading work environment. Decisions about the company’s future, five-year roadmap, workflows, and technology stack are being made by senior management without sufficient data or planning. Lower-level managers are being terminated individually in targeted actions and individual contributors are being laid off in small groups on a near-monthly basis. Work-from-home, flexible scheduling, and work-hours policies are being progressively made less favorable for employees, with policy updates occurring quarterly. Management has announced plans to track employees' devices' physical locations and monitor work habits. Workload is gradually increasing and lower management is being pressured to raise efficiency. Even the limited learning opportunities and career growth the company previously offered are no longer available. I read several recent positive reviews and couldn't shake the suspicion they might be fabricated by HR. In a global meeting the head of HR had said she wasn't concerned about negative Glassdoor feedback, yet she later raised the subject in an unrelated conversation — which struck me as odd. Given the company's present situation, those factors together make it plausible the new positive posts are disingenuous, though I have no concrete proof; it's only a strong intuition.