Pros
Great colleagues, interesting work, opportunities to make an impact.
Cons
The culture for salaried office workers at GM has shifted since the new "Chief People Officer" came on board. Gone are the days of transparent communication. I have literally been in an all people meeting and heard "no layoffs" only to hear the very next day of layoffs. The culture is now toxic and fearful. The new "performance based" workforce means five percent of workers will be put into an underperforming category no matter what and will likely lose their jobs at that time. A manager leading a high-performing team will be forced to still rate five percent of her employees this way, regardless of their actual performance. This is creating a culture where employees are in competition with each other, lest they be part of the five percent. And that totally negates the "One Team" behavior that GM has encouraged for many years. Our Workplace of Choice surveys are so bad, they don't even report the results anymore. I have been a proud GM employee for many years and invested my salary in our products regularly, but I fear the future here is bleak. They have replaced many salaried office workers with staff from the Philippines, all while experiencing record profits and spending billions on stock buybacks. Corporate greed at its worst.
