Senior Management's goal is to grow as fast as possible, and it's costing employees.
A new, much stricter, sick policy was implemented recently. There are several issues with it, but to pick one: if you're out sick on 4 non-consecutive occasions in a 12 month period, you are sent a Letter of Concern. 4 half days would also be considered a trigger for this letter. Further offences lead to further actions or "triggers", disciplinary action etc. They claim the policy is there to support staff, and there are suggestions to the same in it, but the bottom line is clear, this policy is there to terminate staff if desired should they fall ill. A very senior manager said they've been great in terms of sick leave, having increased it recently (true), but this policy contradicts and regresses on it completely.
GDPR - they don't know where or how the confidential health info is going to be stored and how it will be accessed, by who and for how long etc, yet they launched this policy and the forms are mandatory, they must be submitted after every illness. The form asks questions like reason for sick leave but does not make it clear that you don't have to share any confidential info.
People who have medium-long term conditions are extremely worried about this policy, women are also concerned about hitting the triggers due to something as routine as sick days due to menstruation cycles. Lots of concerns were raised by employees, no adjustments yet.
The company is losing the things that made it a great place to work: two-way trust, hiring good people, excellence. Several years ago I would have said 5 stars.
Due to the demands of fulfilling contracts as they scale, they are sponsoring and hiring incompetent staff - some of whom cannot speak english, despite joining an english speaking team in a technical capacity. They are charging clients daily for this.
In addition to several occurrences like the above, they are still being very vocal about core values and empowering people.
