Pros
MIEC has retained many long-time staff members due to a respectful work environment, excellent benefits, and the company's value of work-life balance. Regarding the respectful work environment - I have found my colleagues to be mostly kind and respectful, and willing to help and thank each other. I have never been asked to compromise my values to get my job done - I can't say that about everywhere I've worked. Regarding the excellent benefits - the benefits package includes pension, profit sharing, a 401k match and an annual 401k employer fixed contribution. There is health insurance, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability insurance, an FSA including a DFSA and commuter benefits. Regarding the company's value of work-life balance - in addition to regular holidays and vacation/sick time, we usually get a floating holiday each year and we get one Friday off per month. Leadership has open door policy and makes good faith efforts to stand by the values represented in MIEC's mission and pillars.
Cons
Change happens slowly here. The company is coping with growing pains resulting from industry-wide changes. The culture could use some work -- as I mentioned above, leadership has an open-door policy -- and yet many people demonstrate hesitance to take advantage of that. MIEC definitely is giving attention to this matter though. The company displays an interest in building trust and optimizing a healthy culture and working environment for its employees but it is a work in progress. Some of the other comments mentioned how the every-other-Friday-off benefit was taken away about a decade ago. That is true that it was converted to a one Friday per month benefit. Sure, for those of us who have worked for MIEC for so long that we enjoyed that benefit, it did sting to lose it. However, we do still have one Friday off per month, which is not nothing. I have worked for several managers at MIEC over the years, and I think consistency of internal policy administration could be improved. My experience has been that managers have quite a bit of discretion in how they administrate policies which can sometimes feel unfair when one manager's philosophy is stricter than another's. Similarly, leadership enjoys quite a bit of autonomy, and everyone might benefit if they had more oversight.
