Too much change right now - Anonymous employee Sage Employee Review

2.0
9 Mar 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Working with some really great people.

Cons

This was a great company to work for until the last couple of years. Now, new management is forcing through huge changes without any qualitative analysis of the impact on the company's employees (or maybe they just don't care). Morale is extremely low, especially in the Irvine office, where a number of positions have recently been eliminated or moved to the Atlanta office. Irvine employees that are left have no sense of job security and are just wondering when their turn is. Change this massive can be a good thing, but it has to be managed well and Sage has just dropped the ball completely here. Upper management's message of "just deal with it" is not exactly effective change management. The company will probably recover, and may be a great place to work again in a few years, but I wouldn't recommend it right now. Certainly not the Irvine office.

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Sage Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We’re sorry to hear about the challenges you’ve described around leadership continuity, targets, growth, and ways of working. We recognise the impact that stability, clear accountability, and achievable goals can have on the day-to-day experience of our colleagues, particularly within sales and customer-facing roles. We shall share your feedback with leaders for their visibility as we continue to evolve how we support our teams to truly thrive at work. If you have any additional insights to share, please leave us more feedback via our internal Always Listening forum or through your manager. Thank you again for sharing your perspective.
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