Essence Reviews

1. Punishing culture: For e.g., If you forget to fill in time sheet due to their confusing system, you will be locked out from most of the online activities. For e.g., not able access anything except email. In 2018, the company that claim to focus on people should not promote fear and punishment. Advice: Forgive, Remind, Notify and Repeat. 2. Micro Managed: In fact every thing you do is micro managed by Project Manager. If you spend few hours on research or learning you will be told company don't have budget for this! Suggestion: In addition to giving 2 hrs a week for gym, give employee at least 4 hrs in the personal development and growth. Of course, without terms and condition like if everything get's done because that is a vague requirement. Just having access to linda.com is not enough. Give them working hour time to explore the resource! 3. Stress and Overtime: If you expect employee to do overtime them please pay for them. In employee's contract, it is specified that employee may be required to do overtime without pay and this has happened. To expect employees to work or not compensate employee who work extra time is just like taking expensive bottle of champagne from supermarket and not paying for it. Advice: Work is not everything. Employees may have other commitment beside work. Respect. 4. Getting things done right: Getting things done properly is important than just getting it done quickly. Like every digital agency, my department focus of getting things done quickly. Pressure to estimate time to get in done fast. If you add additional time for e.g. testing, documentation, team collaboration then PM's eyebrow are raised. Advice: Be different and choose quality over delivering task in rush. 5. Agile working is NOT really working: Agile can only work if there are enough desks, uniform hardware, good internet connection. There are plenty of space around office to accommodate stylish sofa and chairs but not enough humble desks. First stress of the day is if you can find a desk, or if the desk available have right monitor, internet connection or comfortable chair. Advice: It is nearly 2 and half month since this Agile approach have been adopted, so no more excuse please. 5. Poor communication in a department. For e.g., you may come to the office and notice a staff you worked with yesterday have left or see few new faces. Just a few example of many. Advice: Communicate, inform and don't think employees or colleague below you position is not too significant to be informed! 6. Not to mention pay package is not competitive. Advice: If working environment is good and employee are valued they may not worry too much about pay and would be excited to work on Monday and sad on Friday.