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I am sorry but these are clearly FALSE ACCUSATIONS. At EFY, we look forward to feedback that we can work on--but nothing can be done w.r.t. lies or totally wrong interpretation.
Having said that--if you could write to us directly or share your name here--would like to understand why you have such a WRONG picture of EFY, and perhaps identify some aspects to improve.
To put on record, what all is FALSE here:
1. "Work culture is truly pathetic. One person controls all decisions. Management is just for show."
From leave approvals to appraisals--all are done by respective HoDs at EFY. In fact, some people find it very strange, when they are asked to appraise their team members and not leave it to the "management". But, we truly believe that accountability can be assigned to HoDs only when they are accompanied by certain powers and privileges. So ONE person controlling everything is non-sense. Unless, one has the wrong impression that just because the head of any organistaion or a nation Example our prime minister) takes critical strategic decisions means that the whole nation is run by a single person!
2. "The HR team is only to maintain attendance."
Attendance at EFY is NOT at all maintained by HR team. In fact, EFY is one of the unique organisations where HR does not have any role in disbursement of salaries and reimbursements. All of that is managed by Accounts team. The HR team at EFY is there for two things:
i) Recruitment & Induction
ii) Be the central coordination agency between different departments to get HR issues resolved
At EFY, we have an HR committee that has only employees on it, including HR personnel. All grievances or 'exception cases' go to them and they take decisions on those, and NOT a single decision taken (they have handled over 50 cases now) by them has been over-turned in the last 2 years--since this committee was set up.
3. "Incentives are promised and then taken away because you worked above their expectations and they now have to pay you a high amount, which they don't want to."
We have NEVER taken away incentives. We had incentives for our sales team for years. And, they are still there too. This is a COMPLETE LIE.
In fact, there are people who will testify that at EFY, accounts team sometimes ends up pushing people to claim their incentives. Many EFYians park their incentives as they feel it's as secure a bank--where they know their money is safe, and helps them avoid unnecessary expenditure. Our accounts team hates this though--because their 'liabilities' columns keeps swelling : )
4. "From personal experience, you got to work 2 full time jobs to make even half..."
We see the fact that EFYians work twice harder on the same pay grade as a complement to all of us. There must be something right in our culture and systems to enable and motivate people to increase their productivity. I also believe that this aspect helps EFYians to be valued more than their peers in the industry.
Having said that--I want to clarify that EFYians do not become more productive by staying back late--it's by working smarter and harder. And, of course--we expect more from our people--than others, because we know all of us have much more potential to deliver than we realise.
5. "Interesting bit is, they proudly flaunt the low pay scale during induction."
In our induction presentation--we do concede to our new joinees that we are benchmarked at about 70 to 80% level w.r.t. pay grade as compared to industry leaders in Media & Entertainment. We do say this with pride because of two reasons:
i) 70% to 80% grade is NOT really bad level (at-least that's what we believe)
ii) More importantly, this fact is shared on the slide whose title reads "Things We Are Improving Upon"
6. If by "management is just for show and only one person takes all decision"--you are complaining about the powers given to respective HoDs to take decisions, and directors not getting involved in day to day operations--well that's what we have been trying to achieve. But, to ensure "absolute power does not corrupt the system'--we have ensured that the HR committee is there.
Overall, we have received some great constructive feedback through GlassDoor. And, we have acted on some and improved as an organisation. But THIS ONE is truly baseless or a very negatively biased interpretation of facts.
