Pros
- Great people. - Great career opportunities if you are ruthlessly corporate in your outlook - high turnover creates lots of space to move up. - Australian management seemingly/finally committed to improvement - but then they desperately need to after years of shrinkage, layoffs, under performance, law suits, and buying great profitable businesses with vibrant cultures that shrivel away to a shadow of the success and profile that they had (Maunsell, Basset, EDAW, Earth Tech, ENSR, Davis Langdon, URS) - Free tea, coffee and biscuits, and one banana per week.
Cons
- For years, everything about the way the business is run has been focussed on short term financial performance - which has demoralised and alienated most staff with a result that unsustainable staff turnover and zero profit is the norm. And it didn't work anyway. - Rated as one of the Top Ten Worst employers in the US, winner of NO Employer of Choice awards, winner of - wait for it - only 1 Beatons Client Choice award (not repeated - and rated in the bottom quartile in every criteria for the last four years). - Relentless corporate propaganda about what a great place this is to work. - salaries benchmarked on industry median and no performance bonus scheme no matter what you achieve - AECOM talks about being the best then structurally aims for the median, then fails to achieve it. - today's announcement - all former AECOM (as opposed to URS) staff now have to work and additional 7% hours/week for no extra pay or recognition - all part of profitability, "flexibility" and being Employer of Choice. Congratulations valued personnel, your contracts have already been amended - and remember, if through your personal failings, you do not reach your amended billability targets for more than a few weeks, you will regretfully, be downsized.