Expedia Group

Interesting work, some extremely talented people on my team, okay pay.

Senior leadership doesn’t have an understanding of the future, and only pays lip service to things like democracy, diversity, and equality.

There’s next to no real innovation, and they don’t even know enough to see that as a problem.

Endless new, half-baked, time-consuming initiatives which don’t provide an ounce of value to end users.

Bad vacation policies, and unannounced cuts to employee PTO.

I know you need a reason to justify spending a billion dollars on your waterfront property in Seattle to the shareholders, but implementing a regressive remote work policy which will inspire talented people to quit isn’t it. This is quite out of touch with where the future is headed, and where many employees would like to be. Most companies had flexible work policies a decade ago. What you rolled out finally brought us to 2010. Maybe in a decade you can implement policies to bring you in line with 2021 expectations.

My advice is to understand the value of your employees. Grow a spine, then use it to do something that benefits your employees without first waiting on every other company to do it ahead of you. Disallowing questions in town halls where you may make unpopular announcements is incredibly weak.