Pros
Middle management does the best job it can at supporting employees, given their shrinking, shallow pool of resources afforded them by executive management.
Cons
Executive management is focused on quarterly earnings, internal metrics, and stockholder payouts. Over the past two years, there has been a continuous stream of management changes, layoffs, turnover (talented employees leaving), and remaining employees getting overloaded. On top of that, segments of remaining employees won't even get a basic cost of living raise in 2024 (a raise that they were denied for TWO YEARS to pay stockholders instead), despite healthy profit margins for the company - a very telling executive message that employees are last on the priority list. This is not an atmosphere that any talented consultant would want to work hard to support.
