Atlassian

• Was good before COVID.
• Above-average salary.

When Covid hit, they put all the load on the employees. While most other companies were trying to care for their employees, Atlassian locked us out of the office for the rest of the year.

When Covid was over, they basically turned into a full-remote company. The office is finally open now, but only with maximum harassment (hot desking, constant temperature checks, even if people are in the office they have to zoom into meetings individually), so nobody from my team comes to the office and it's essentially a remote company now.

Endless discrimination at this company. Remote people get favored. On the other hand, if you can't work remotely, management harasses you about your "performance." They literally put people into a position where they can't do their jobs anymore and then try to blame the employees for their failing TeamAnywhere policy. It's ridiculous.

Toxic atmosphere. Many people hate working there; I've literally had graduates ask me if all companies are as bad as Atlassian. (No, they are not! Please don't let a few bad apples discourage you from a career in a great industry.) Yet, Confluence and Slack are full of people who "love" Atlassian. You quickly find out why that is. Any criticism gets shut down immediately. You literally get asked into a 1:1 with your manager when you say anything that is even mildly critical of Atlassian or TeamAnywhere.

Very political. They constantly blast political propaganda your way (blog posts, emails, speeches, non-stop political workshops in your calendar). I don't even always disagree with their views, but it would just be nice to keep politics out of the workplace.

You need to acknowledge that your employees are humans, not robots.

Try to treat people with respect. You need to understand that people are different; not everybody is a remote worker. For some people, remote or "distributed" work is just not an option.

We are still good people and good engineers. Atlassian should give everyone a chance to contribute and belong to the team.

Cancel TeamAnywhere or, at the very least, rearrange teams into remote and non-remote teams, so people have a choice of how they want to work.