Pros
Staff are the best reason to work at OSF right now. With the apparent strong pivot away from supporting fields relevant to open societies, it’s difficult to build and maintain relationships with grantees in those fields. What left is a global cadre of fantastic, committed staff- often from those communities the work should affect- surrounding you with support, expertise and understanding. Those connections are priceless. Management is excellent at hiring fantastic people.
Cons
A seeming increasing financial portfolio at a time of abrupt and deep staffing cuts. Employing fixed term staff for what feels like timeframes which run long enough to be permanent then using their status to suddenly reduce their overhead costs while not ensuring remaining staff labor aren’t exploited. Leadership hires us but then we don’t seem to be consulted around the expertise for which we were hired. And we have been working for years with very little regard from leadership to now discover that after this latest round of the transformation, those of us committed to the work and willing to go through so many “transformations” may now not receive the support those who left earlier received.