Poor Management - Anonymous employee Athabasca University Employee Review

Benefits and salary are the only pros I can think of... Academics have it good, real good. Professionals and support staff, different story.

Everything else that excludes S&B. HR, management, VPs, even the university secretary. No leadership, people made supervisors without any supervisory skill training, end up in being supervised by unskilled people, making your work that much more depressing and frustrating. This place is no fun or challenging or interesting to work at. If you just want a good salary with great benefits, it's the place. Easy to get in a rut and get entrapped with other negative people that constantly complain about their work. And then, you turn around, and see some support staff doing very little in their days, and you wonder why the university is financially struggling.

Remote work, great benefits and good salary

Everything else. AU is led by bullying, toxic senior leaders who micromanage everything and don’t let their employees do the jobs they were hired to do. Good people have fled in droves leaving piles of work for those of us who remain.