Epic Systems

Epic provides opportunities to do truly meaningful work. The software Epic develops impacts millions of patient lives. Your coworkers will be smart, hardworking, and passionate people who want to do great work.

Management is entirely out of touch with reality and believes that employees are mindless drones. Employees are humans, but Epic has abandoned treating us like people. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Epic has pushed relentlessly for employees to take on needless risk for the sake of workplace culture.

There has been strong pressure to stop remote work from the day it began, citing the importance of workplace culture and gaslighting employees into believing that we are "heroes helping heroes". After all, if docs and nurses are on the front lines risking their lives, why shouldn't we?

Epic has, since the beginning of remote work in March, set a series of deadlines for returning to campus. These deadlines have been torturously extended each time with two weeks' notice. The stress and anxiety this causes employees cannot be understated. I know of no fewer than twelve coworkers who have begun therapy since quarantine began, all citing Epic's treatment of them as a major contributing factor.

Your employees are your biggest asset. Treat us with the respect we have earned. Be the innovators you claim to want to be. Innovation should not stop with our software; it should extend to all aspects of your business.

Your employees deserve the fantastic treatment you have extended to our customers during this unprecedented period of incredible stress and anxiety. It is beyond frustrating and disheartening to see the compassion with which Epic speaks about our customers when your treatment of employees is so dispassionate and uncaring. I am embarrassed to say I am an Epic employee.