Policies Exploit Hard Work
Policies Exploit Hard Work
IBM HR Policies like:
- If you are not promoted for so and so years, your rating won't be considered, irrespective of the hard work you put in throughout the year.
- In IBM, PL is Privilege Leave, not Paid/Earned Leave, so as to encourage employees to avail leave and maintain work-life balance. Although, no PM allows to avail this leave, and in the beginning of the year (1st Quarter), we start receiving emails stating we are short of billing. The truth is many people have not availed a single leave at this time.
Major consequences are:
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People have started realizing that all these IBM HR Employee Central policies are not for employee welfare, rather exploitation. People discuss this during group chats; however, most of them are afraid to bring this in front of management due to fear of losing their jobs.
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People working hard to get a good rating finally achieve it; however, the net gain remains zero due to IBM HR policies.
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People have not even consumed their deferred leaves, and their current year quota is untouched, still receiving mail stating they are short of billing and need to work during the weekend.
IBM must rethink about its ethics.
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