American Red Cross reviews

Upper management demand accountability with zero knowledge of local relationships. Horrible staff morale and a top down management system that fails on just about every level. Staff turnover is destroying what made the Red Cross so great and management doesn't care. Horrible decisions being made without taking into account the unique relationships on the local level. Upper management are destroying the Red Cross and its only a matter of time before the financials are too obvious to ignore.

The organization has been plagued by years of ongoing layoffs and cost-saving re-engineering programs. The (once generous) benefits are consistently being rolled back and/or discontinued: the pension was discontinued; health insurance costs nearly doubled in the last year and management is clearly attempting to steer employees into high-deductible, high-coinsurance, high out-of pocket plans; through a conveniently labeled "standardization" of national PTO policy, most employees recently lost 3, 6 or more days of PTO per year. It is increasingly difficult to advance in a company that is either laying employees off or discontinuing positions through attrition. Resolving pay-related discrepancies is notoriously difficult due to unresponsive HR, Payroll and ADP (third party contractor) staff.