New Senior Management Motivates Through Fear - Anonymous employee DAI Employee Review

2.0
27 Mar 2020
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great coworkers that are mission-driven, opportunities to travel, health insurance during a pandemic. I have been at worse companies.

Cons

The not so veiled threats by management of layoffs started in December to 'motivate us.' They continue through the COVID crisis, but now they are sandwiched between witty asides about working from home ("My wife and I haven't divorced each other, yet ..LOL") and silly contests for small cash prizes, all designed to keep up morale and give the impression we are all "in this together."

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