Very sudden and random layoffs- two rounds happened in one year. This left the company short-staffed and the remaining team members spread thinly at times. When the company is busy with clients, the hours are extremely long; ten hours a day straight was not enough for me to get done what I needed during a three-month busy period there. Everyone was pretty overworked during this time, making (understandably) for sometimes short fuses among employees and quite a lack of work/life balance. The demanding nature of the job heightened my anxiety to the point where it was difficult to enjoy the company or my role, and I knew I wanted the rest of my career to be outside of the recruiting industry. I understand that jobs are meant to be stressful- I truly believe that any job worth having and working hard at should be at least somewhat stressful; it reminds you of what you're working for, which for me is professional development and betterment. Had there been some kind of a safe space for employees, the lack of work/life balance would maybe have rested with me a little easier than it did.
