Significant cultural issues within tax team - Tax Manager Elanco Employee Review

1.0
30 June 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great company, fascinating growth opportunities, good culture with the company overall, just pockets of problematic culture. Amazing benefits. Some fantastic individuals on the tax team with unbelievable technical knowledge.

Cons

Unfortunately the tax department is probably the most dysfunctional group in the entire company. HR has had multiple individuals raise flags of inappropriate and unethical behavior and no serious action is taken. Within the last year, there has been 60% turnover globally, mostly isolated to US cultural issues driving this number, with over 80% turnover in a single year. One person actually left in less than a month. Additionally, HR based overseas will partake in bad faith salary negotiations, including lying about max pay and offer no remedy to correct this.

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Elanco Response
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Thank you for sharing your concerns. We take any allegations of unethical behaviors seriously and all are investigated thoroughly. Any person can raise a concern through Elanco’s established reporting channel, IntegrityLine, which is available 24 hours a day, seven (7) days a week by telephone or online. If you have not yet done so, please report specifics to our reporting system.

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Cons

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